What Happened to The Shaved Duck After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 15 Saint Louis, Missouri Closed April 2026
Current status
As of October 2026, The Shaved Duck has closed — confirmed via stlmag.com, April 30, 2026.
What the source shows: St. Louis Magazine reported the restaurant's sudden April 2026 closure, corroborated by a September 2026 Yelp listing marking it permanently closed and a site check showing the domain now serves unrelated placeholder content. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 15, Episode 11
- Aired
- Address 2900 Virginia Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63118
- Website theshavedduck.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured The Shaved Duck's smoked barbecue, including its burnt ends, smothered fries, and smoked-then-fried wings, on the episode "Food Done Right," which aired 2012-10-29, according to St. Louis Magazine's coverage of the restaurant. The Shaved Duck, founded by Ally Nisbet in 2009, operated for 17 years on Virginia Avenue in St. Louis's Dutchtown neighborhood. St. Louis Magazine reported on 2026-04-30 that the restaurant quietly shuttered earlier that month, with a sign posted in the window stating it was closed until further notice and no official word from ownership on whether the closure was temporary or permanent. A Yelp listing for the address was updated in September 2026 marking the business as permanently closed.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- stlmag.com https://www.stlmag.com/dining/the-shaved-duck-in-tower-grove-east-closes-at-least-temporarily/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-shaved-duck-st-louis-3
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Record ddd-0559 · checked by Cal Marchetti.