What Happened to Zazu Kitchen + Farm After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 29, Episode 7 Aired November 30, 2018

On "From Sandwiches to Stroganoff" (season 29, episode 7, aired 2018-11-30), Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Zazu Kitchen + Farm, a farm-to-table restaurant featured as based in Sebastopol, California. Google Places lists a matching business, Zazu Restaurant & Farm, at a Guerneville Road address in neighboring Santa Rosa rather than Sebastopol, suggesting the restaurant may have relocated within Sonoma County at some point after the episode aired. Google Places lists that Santa Rosa location's business status as permanently closed, checked 2026-09-08, with no fresher dated source found showing the restaurant still operating at either address. No current business website or additional dated coverage could be located for Zazu during this check, so the closure date and circumstances remain unconfirmed.

Food Paradise, Season 4, Episode 1 Aired 2012

Food Paradise's Bacon Paradise 2: Another Slab, which aired in 2012, featured Zazu Restaurant & Farm, spotlighting chef-owners Duskie Estes and John Stewart's house-cured bacon and other farm-to-table dishes made from ingredients raised on their own property outside Santa Rosa. Estes and Stewart later relocated the restaurant to The Barlow marketplace in Sebastopol, renaming it Zazu Kitchen + Farm, according to the Press Democrat. The Press Democrat reported that the Sebastopol restaurant closed after flooding from the Laguna de Santa Rosa in February 2019 forced Estes and Stewart to pull their equipment from the space.

Google Places marks the original Guerneville Road address in Santa Rosa permanently closed. Estes and Stewart have continued operating their Black Piglet food truck and Black Pig Meat Company, according to Sonoma Magazine. This appearance is treated as the same business already documented in this database at its original Santa Rosa location.