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Is Toki Underground Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 23 Washington, District of Columbia

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Toki Underground is listed open on tokiunderground.com, reviewed by our team on September 21, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Re-checked 2026-09-21: tokiunderground.com (site has migrated to a new platform since the last check) is live, still lists the DC location at 1234 H Street NE with active online ordering — consistent with prior open status. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Toki Underground for the 'East-West Flavorfest' episode, aired 2015-12-18, which paired East Asian and Western kitchens across the show's stops. According to Flavortown USA, Guy Fieri praised the restaurant's Toki Classic Ramen as a multi-course meal in a single bowl, and sampled vegetarian dumplings filled with ginger-and-garlic tofu, shiitake mushrooms, and daikon radish. Toki Underground is a ramen restaurant on H Street Northeast in Washington, D.C., opened by chef Erik Bruner-Yang in 2011, in a corridor known for its concentration of bars and small, chef-driven restaurants. A check of the restaurant's own website on 2026-09-08 found it live, with an active online-ordering link, current menu listings, and a server record showing the page had last been updated on 2026-09-06.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 23

Episode 14
Aired
Title: East-West Flavorfest · What was featured: the Toki Classic Ramen and vegetarian tofu-and-mushroom dumplings
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. tokiunderground.com http://tokiunderground.com/
  2. flavortownusa.com https://www.flavortownusa.com/locations/875/toki-underground
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Record ddd-0837 · checked by Cal Marchetti.