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What Happened to the Anchor Bar and Tattoo Studio After Mystery Diners?

Mystery Diners, Season 10 Atlanta, Georgia

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, the Anchor Bar and Tattoo Studio has closed — confirmed via Google, September 9, 2026.

What the source shows: Google's listing marks The Anchor Bar & Tattoo Studio as permanently closed at 1878 Piedmont Ave NE, Atlanta, and no active website was found for the business. How we decide a status →

About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.

What happened after Mystery Diners?

In "Red Ink" (Mystery Diners, Food Network, S10E10, aired 2015-08-05), according to IMDb's episode listing, Uche, the owner of the Anchor Bar and Tattoo Studio in Atlanta, Georgia, told investigator Charles Stiles he had noticed a drop in both food and tattoo sales at his combined bar-and-tattoo-parlor business. IMDb's listing reports Charles sent Mystery Diners operatives Meagen and Justin in undercover to see whether the two declines were related. Charles then coached Uche on addressing whatever the undercover team found tying the two revenue streams together.

Wikipedia's article on Mystery Diners, citing its sources, describes the series as staged and scripted rather than an unscripted documentary. In the years since, Google Places records the Anchor Bar & Tattoo Studio's business status at 1878 Piedmont Ave NE, Atlanta, as permanently closed, and this research pass found no working website or current listing for the business under that name. No dated news coverage of the closure was located.

The episode Mystery Diners, Season 10

Episode 10
Aired
Title: Red Ink · What was featured: Owner suspected a drop in food and tattoo sales were connected
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. imdb.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4900420/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=The+Anchor+Bar+%26+Tattoo+Studio+1878+Piedmont+Ave+NE+Atlanta+GA+30324
  3. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners
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Record md-117 · checked by Cal Marchetti.