What Happened to The Golden State After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 16 Los Angeles, California Closed January 2021
Current status
As of October 2026, The Golden State has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, January 4, 2021.
What the source shows: A history posted on the business's own website shows the restaurant closed permanently on 2021-01-04 and afterward offered only limited service from a nearby coffee shop. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 16, Episode 10
- Aired
- Address 426 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
- Website goldenstatecafe.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited The Golden State in Los Angeles for the 2013-03-04 episode "Hittin' the Grill," where the show highlighted the restaurant's burgers, including a beef patty topped with Fiscalini Farms cheddar, plus salads and California-sourced sides. The Golden State operated as a casual burger restaurant on North Fairfax Avenue for more than a decade. According to a history posted on the business's own website, the restaurant closed permanently on 2021-01-04 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The same page adds that the team afterward offered limited service from Cofax Coffee, a business up the block at 440 N Fairfax Avenue, while trying to retain much of the menu and staff and search for a new permanent home. The website's most recent dated content is a March 2022 menu reference, with nothing more current found.
The episode
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Season 16: 11 of 29 still open · 4 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 8Pies 'N' Thighs
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Ep 9Hey Meatball
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Ep 10Crown Bar
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Ep 11Beer Belly
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Ep 11Lakeview Restaurant
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Sources we checked
- goldenstatecafe.com https://goldenstatecafe.com/story
- goldenstatecafe.com https://goldenstatecafe.com/
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Record ddd-0588 · checked by Cal Marchetti.