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Is The Garlic Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 36 New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Garlic is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The business's own website shows 2026-dated page content and posted current nightly hours as of 2026-09-08, and Google Places separately marks the listing operational the same day. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? 2 episodes

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 36, Episode 1 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited this New Smyrna Beach restaurant during the "Burger, Bird and Meaty Italian" episode, aired 2022-09-09, highlighting Italian entrees served alongside its attached blu bar. The Garlic operates from 3rd Avenue in New Smyrna Beach and bills itself on its own site, thegarlic.net, as an "Authentic Italian Restaurant." The site, checked on 2026-09-08, showed 2026 in its page content and posted current hours of Thursday 4 to 10 p.m. and Friday through Saturday 4 to 11 p.m., noting it is "Open Daily at 4pm" and closed only on Christmas Day. Google Places also listed the business as operational on 2026-09-08, matching the hours and 2026-dated content posted on the restaurant's own site.

Food Paradise, Season 4, Episode 26 Aired

The episode featured The Garlic's garlic-forward Italian menu, part of the show's look at restaurants centered on garlic. The Garlic is an Italian restaurant and blu bar in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, serving dinner nightly with first-come, first-served seating. This entry documents the restaurant's appearance in this Food Paradise episode; see the existing record for the business's current operating status.

The episodes Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Episode 1
Aired
Title: Burger, Bird and Meaty Italian · What was featured: Italian entrees from a beachside restaurant and attached bar
Food Paradise, Season 4, Episode 26
Aired
Title: Garlic Paradise · What was featured: the restaurant's garlic-forward Italian dishes at its blu bar
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. thegarlic.net http://thegarlic.net/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=29.0291137,-80.8988347
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Record ddd-1343 · checked by Cal Marchetti.