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What Happened to The Groves Bar & Grill After Mystery Diners?

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As of September 2026, The Groves Bar & Grill has closed — confirmed via Google, September 7, 2026.

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What the source shows: Google Places lists The Groves Bar and Grill at 323 S Gilbert Rd with a permanently-closed business status.

  • Season / episode Season 1, Episode 2
  • Original air date
  • Address 323 S Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85296

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What happened after Mystery Diners?

In 'Catering on the Side' (aired 2012-05-20), Mystery Diners investigators looked into The Groves Bar & Grill in Gilbert after the owner suspected a chef of running a side catering operation on the restaurant's dime. Hidden cameras recorded the chef pulling food and supplies from the restaurant's inventory to prepare orders for an outside catering business he was operating without the owner's knowledge, an arrangement the episode framed as quietly draining the kitchen's food cost. Investigators reviewed the footage with the owner, itemizing the ingredients and equipment that had gone toward the chef's private jobs over a period of weeks, and the episode showed the owner confronting the chef with the recordings on site. According to Wikipedia's article on the series, citing its sources, later episodes carried an on-screen disclaimer noting that certain depicted events may have been staged or re-enacted for dramatic purposes.

Google Places lists the business, recorded there as The Groves Bar and Grill, at 323 S Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85296, with a business status of permanently closed as checked in this pass. No dated news coverage, social-media account, or listing update naming a specific closure date was located for this address, and the evidence packet did not include a working website for the business. Because the packet's own Google Places record already marks the location permanently closed, the closure is treated as verified under this project's rule that any dated source showing a permanent-closure business status is sufficient on its own, without a second corroborating source. The exact closure date, and whether another business has since taken over the Gilbert Road address, could not be determined from the evidence available in this pass.

Featured on Mystery Diners

Season / episode
Season 1, Episode 2
Original air date
Episode title
Catering on the Side
What was featured
Chef ran an unauthorized side catering business using restaurant supplies
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
The Groves Bar & Grill

Frequently asked questions

Is The Groves Bar & Grill still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, The Groves Bar & Grill has closed — confirmed via Google, September 7, 2026.

What happened to The Groves Bar & Grill after Mystery Diners?

In 'Catering on the Side' (aired 2012-05-20), Mystery Diners investigators looked into The Groves Bar & Grill in Gilbert after the owner suspected a chef of running a side catering operation on the restaurant's dime. As of September 2026, The Groves Bar & Grill has closed — confirmed via Google, September 7, 2026.

Is The Groves Bar & Grill permanently closed?

As of September 2026, The Groves Bar & Grill has closed — confirmed via Google, September 7, 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is The Groves Bar & Grill located?

323 S Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85296. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Mystery Diners featured The Groves Bar & Grill?

Season 1, Episode 2 of Mystery Diners, first aired May 20, 2012. The episode is titled “Catering on the Side”.

What do reviews say since Mystery Diners?

Investigators reviewed the footage with the owner, itemizing the ingredients and equipment that had gone toward the chef's private jobs over a period of weeks, and the episode showed the owner confronting the chef with the recordings on site. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

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Visit info

Address
323 S Gilbert Rd, Gilbert, AZ 85296
Venue type
bar
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • Google — https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=The+Groves+Bar+and+Grill%2C+323+S+Gilbert+Rd%2C+Gilbert%2C+AZ+85296
  • Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners

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