TV Restaurants

Is Weiland Brewery Restaurant Still Open? Mystery Diners Update

Mystery Diners, Season 10 Long Beach, California

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Weiland Brewery Restaurant is open — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What the source shows: Weiland Brewery Restaurant 3 (4354 Atlantic Ave, Bixby Knolls, Long Beach) carries an active, non-"CLOSED" Yelp listing updated June 2026 and appears in a Tripadvisor "Best Restaurants in Long Beach" roundup updated September 2026, with an active Instagram handle (@weilandbrewery3). This is a separate, longer-running brewpub (serving Bixby Knolls since 1999), distinct from Belmont Brewing Co. How we decide a status →

About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.

What happened after Mystery Diners?

In "Backdoor Bootlegging" (Mystery Diners, Food Network, S10E4, aired 2015-06-24), according to Food Network's episode synopsis, Rick, the owner of the featured brewery-restaurant in Long Beach, California, told investigator Charles Stiles he had noticed discrepancies in his beer supply. Charles sent Mystery Diners operatives Brianna and Jamie in undercover, and Food Network's synopsis reports they uncovered a large-scale bootlegging operation being run inside the restaurant without the owner's knowledge. Charles then walked Rick through how to close off the losses and tighten control over his kegs and inventory.

Wikipedia's article on Mystery Diners, citing its sources, describes the series as staged and scripted rather than an unscripted documentary. Google Places currently lists an operating business, Belmont Brewing Co, at the coordinates associated with this location, at 25 39th Pl, Long Beach, California — a different name from the one featured in the episode. A site check of belmontbrewing.com on 2026-09-09 returned an HTTP 403 response, so this research pass could not confirm current site content and could not determine whether this reflects a name change at the same location or a separate business. No dated source resolving Weiland Brewery Restaurant's current status was located.

The episode Mystery Diners, Season 10

Episode 4
Aired
Title: Backdoor Bootlegging · What was featured: Owner suspected staff running an unauthorized keg bootlegging operation
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. foodnetwork.com https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/mystery-diners/episodes/backdoor-bootlegging
  2. belmontbrewing.com https://www.belmontbrewing.com/
  3. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Diners
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Record md-111 · checked by Cal Marchetti.