Is The Chef's Touch BBQ Rig Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 36 Los Olivos, California
Current status
As of October 2026, The Chef's Touch BBQ Rig is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.
What the source shows: A 2026-09-08 check of thechefstouch.com carried a Last-Modified date of 2026-09-08 and described an active catering operation, and Google Places lists the business's status as operational. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 36, Episode 10
- Aired
- Address 2939 Grand Ave, Los Olivos, CA 93441
- Now called The Chef's Touch
- Website thechefstouch.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured The Chef's Touch BBQ Rig in Santa Ynez, California, where Guy Fieri sampled smoked barbecue cooked on a mobile rig on the episode 'Smoker, Stove and Skewer,' which aired 2023-01-13. The business, now presented on its website simply as The Chef's Touch, has expanded into full-service catering for weddings, corporate events, and private parties, according to thechefstouch.com. A direct check of that website on 2026-09-08 found it live, with a Last-Modified date of the same day and active pages describing catering for social and corporate events.
Google Places separately lists the business's status as operational, with an address on Grand Avenue in nearby Los Olivos. No online-ordering system was found on the current site, consistent with a catering-focused business rather than a walk-up or drive-in operation. No change in ownership was found in the records checked for this update.
The episode
Also in Season 36
Season 36: 28 of 35 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 9NOLA on 5th
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Ep 9Roof 106
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Ep 10Bossie's Kitchen
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Ep 11Bettina
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Ep 11Marsigliano's
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Ep 11No Butcher
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Sources we checked
- thechefstouch.com https://thechefstouch.com/
- Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=34.666444999999996,-120.1151946
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Record ddd-1369 · checked by Cal Marchetti.