Is The Tamale Place Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 12 Indianapolis, Indiana
Current status
As of October 2026, The Tamale Place is listed open on thetamaleplace.com, reviewed by our team on October 18, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: The Tamale Place's own website shows 2026-dated content, an online ordering system and a page devoted to its Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives appearance, consistent with Google Places' operational status. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 12, Episode 3
- Aired
- Address 5226 Rockville Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46224
- Website thetamaleplace.com
- Show map
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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Food Network) featured The Tamale Place in the season 12 episode "You Can Only Get It Here," which aired May 23, 2011, spotlighting the restaurant's tamales, tacos and tortas. The Tamale Place is a Mexican restaurant at 5226 Rockville Rd in Indianapolis, Indiana. The restaurant's website devotes a page to its Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives appearance and offers frozen tamales for shipping through a partner site, Tamale Place 2 Go, alongside separate pages covering its history, employment opportunities and directions to the restaurant. A check of the website on September 8, 2026 found current-year, 2026-dated content, an online ordering option, and an active e-gift-card and VIP-membership program, and Google's business listing for the address showed an operational status.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- thetamaleplace.com https://www.thetamaleplace.com/
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Record ddd-0437 · checked by Cal Marchetti.