The Catch-Up

• 🎬 20 new clips — a duck french toast that "shocked Guy," DC's calzone debate, and the full Season 1 premiere from 2007. See the full video library.
• 🗺️ 9 new stops — Northwest Arkansas keeps winning, and Seattle's Ballard stakeout paid off. Ramen Nara, Danger Dave's, Lupe's Situ Tacos, and more.
• ❌ 13 closures, 2 reopenings — including a famous Texas gas-station favorite that's back under a new address.
• 📰 20+ news stories — Guy filmed in Myrtle Beach, Wilmington's Copper Penny heads to Triple D Nation, and Palm Beach County keeps feeding him.
• 📸 88 new photos — our biggest community photo month yet, from Reno pizza to San Jose Cambodian.
• 🍽️ 168 reader recommendations approved — you told us where Guy should go next.

1. Twenty New Episode Clips Added

September's clips ran coast to coast. The headline: the Season 1, Episode 1 full episode, the April 23, 2007 premiere that started it all, now linked to Mac and Ernie's Roadside Eatery in Tarpley, TX.

Fan favorites this month:

• The duck french toast that shocked Guy at Namo Cafe Bistro — Calgary, AB
• Does Comet Ping Pong serve Washington, DC's best calzone?
• Maine's best seafood chowder at Maine Diner — Wells, ME
• A BIG burger at Wallace Station — Versailles, KY
• A Nigerian jollof rice burrito at MF International — Sparks, NV
• Handmade pork buns at Tasty Dumpling — Sacramento, CA

Three cities owned the month:

• Charlotte, NC (×2) — the monster burger at Pinkys Westside Grill, which Guy reached by way of a racetrack with Clint Bowyer, and gourmet food inside a go-kart track at Pit Road Bar & Grill.
• Mission, KS (×2) — serious BBQ flavor at Johnny's BBQ and smoked sausage at RJ's Bob-Be-Que.
• California (×7) — Thai boat noodles at Mae Malai Thai House of Noodles (Los Angeles), a hidden Greek gem at Athena's Greek Cafe & Bakery (Bakersfield again), Guy's favorite Thai dishes at Asian Experience (Taft), a juicy burger at Burger Me (Truckee), Creole-Thai fusion at The Bywater (Los Gatos), a pork steak at Paul's Coffee Shop (Fountain Valley), plus Tasty Dumpling above.

Also new: Korean fried chicken on a biscuit at Leftie Lees (Avondale Estates, GA), Viking Soul Food (Portland, OR), and Butchers Kitchen Char-B-Que (Reno, NV).

➡️ Browse every DDD video on Flavortown →

2. Nine Restaurants Added to the Map

Northwest Arkansas is a corridor now. Ramen Nara in Rogers and Danger Dave's in Bentonville both appear in the Season 43 episode "Beef, Bowls, and Burritos," joining last month's Rogers and Bentonville additions along I-49.

Seattle's Ballard stakeout paid off. August's filming sightings now have a name: Lupe's Situ Tacos, confirmed by My Ballard for an upcoming episode. Local Tide, also in Seattle, joins it on the map.

And the Grand Strand. Guy filmed at several Myrtle Beach-area restaurants this month, and we've started putting them on the map: Toffino's Italian Bakery Deli Pizzeria, Brisket (North Myrtle Beach), Seasons By 10/Fold, J-Mike's Flavor Station, and Old Town Crepes. Episode details aren't announced yet, so we'll fill those in when they air.

3. In the News: DDD Everywhere

• Guy filmed in Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach Online and Yahoo covered the crew's stops along the Grand Strand. See the new map entries above.
• Wilmington's Copper Penny heads to Triple D Nation. Port City Daily reports the longtime favorite will be filmed, and the Wilmington Star-News looked back on Guy's last trip to town.
• Seattle's mystery filming, solved. My Ballard confirmed Lupe's Situ Tacos for an upcoming episode.
• Two more Northwest Arkansas restaurants. Local coverage confirmed the pair now on our map.
• Palm Beach County keeps feeding Guy. The Palm Beach Post covered a return visit to a county Thai restaurant, and followed with the owner of Wok by the Beach thanking Guy months after the episode.
• Alaska's 21 DDD restaurants. The Alaska Current rounded up every Alaskan stop.
• The price of Flavortown. A look at the high cost restaurants pay to appear on the show made the rounds.
• The listicle wave. Tasting Table ran 10 best bakeries, 10 sandwiches Guy raved about, and a Texas BBQ joint that won him over with "dynamite" handmade sausages. Only In Your State highlighted South of Beale's Tennessee bread pudding.

➡️ Read the full DDD newsfeed →

4. Thirteen Closed, Two Back From the Brink

The less fun section, but the most useful one. This month our community and verification dashboard confirmed 13 DDD alumni have served their last meal:

• Happy Gillis Cafe and Hang Out — Kansas City, MO
• Rustica Eatery and Tavern — Moorhead, MN
• Tampa Bay Brewing Company — Tampa, FL (the featured Ybor City location)
• Bunker Vietnamese — Brooklyn, NY
• Salsa Brava — Flagstaff, AZ
• Millers East Coast Deli — San Francisco, CA
• Loleta Cheese Factory — Loleta, CA
• Soul Taco — Richmond, VA
• South End — Venice, CA
• Cora Fayes Cafe — Aurora, CO
• Chaps Coffee Co — Spokane, WA
• Big Ski's Pierogis — Bend, OR
• Tampa Taco Bus — Tampa, FL

Reopened:

• Rigoletto Italian Bakery and Cafe — Virginia Beach, VA. Welcome back.
• Chef Point Bar & Restaurant — Colleyville, TX. Last month we reported the famous gas-station original in Watauga had closed. It's back, with a new address in Colleyville.

Every listing on FlavortownUSA carries a verified open/closed status, and closures are only recorded when confirmed. Closed spots stay on the map as part of Triple D history. Browse them all on the closed restaurants list. See something we missed? Report the status right on the restaurant's page.

5. From the Community

September was our biggest photo month yet: 88 new photos across 15 restaurants.

• Granzella's Restaurant (Williams, CA) and Smiling with Hope Pizza (Reno, NV) led the pack with eight photos each. Granzella's includes a Guy-and-the-Camaro shot, and the Smiling with Hope set tours the DDD wall and the Cannoli Cookie Cups.
• Angkor Chef (San Jose, CA) — six photos, including the "Guy Ate Here" pan, spring rolls, and the Amok fish curry.
• Vietnoms, Moo Dang, MF International, and Tasty Dumpling each got a full six-photo tour.
• Happy Gillis (Kansas City, MO) — five photos of the beloved cafe in its final days.

55 dishes were added too: Cambodian Amok at Angkor Chef, nuoc mam chicken wings at Vietnoms, rib chips at BJ's Barbecue (Sparks, NV), a Greektown Detroit-style pizza at R Town Pizza (Reno), Haitian fried goat at Island Taste Caribbean Grill (San Jose), a Norwegian meatball lefse wrap at Viking Soul Food (Portland), and a five-dish tour of Bob's Taco Station (Rosenberg, TX).

And 168 recommendations were approved (out of 173 submitted). Standouts include Kitchen and Spice (Nutter Fort, WV), Aru Aru (Baltimore, MD), and Freskos (Hamden, CT). Think a spot in your town deserves the Guy treatment? Recommend it →

Diners also logged 23 visits and saved 10 favorites. Where does your count stand? Check the leaderboard →

6. What's New on the Site

• Browse the Activity feed day by day. New Prev/Next navigation walks through each day's new photos, eats, and updates, with a live search across recent activity. See what happened today →
• A Closed pill on the homepage. One tap from the home page category pills takes you to every closed restaurant.
• Smoother Google sign-in. If you cancel or hit a Google sign-in problem, you're now returned to the login page with a clear message instead of an error.
• Clearer feedback everywhere. Photo uploads now show validation messages when something's wrong with a file, login throttling explains itself, and a canceled checkout says so plainly.
• Behind-the-scenes hardening. We tightened content sanitization, rate limiting, and security logging. Nothing you need to do, just a safer site.

FAQ: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — September 2026

What new DDD restaurants were added in September 2026?

Nine: Ramen Nara (Rogers, AR) and Danger Dave's (Bentonville, AR) from the Season 43 episode "Beef, Bowls, and Burritos"; Lupe's Situ Tacos and Local Tide in Seattle, WA; and five Myrtle Beach-area restaurants: Toffino's Italian Bakery Deli Pizzeria, Brisket, Seasons By 10/Fold, J-Mike's Flavor Station, and Old Town Crepes.

Which DDD restaurants closed in September 2026?

Thirteen were verified closed, including Happy Gillis Cafe and Hang Out in Kansas City, Tampa Bay Brewing Company and Tampa Taco Bus in Tampa, and Salsa Brava in Flagstaff. Two reopened: Rigoletto Italian Bakery and Cafe in Virginia Beach and Chef Point Bar & Restaurant in Colleyville, TX.

Where can I watch the new DDD clips?

All 20 of September's clips are collected on FlavortownUSA. Each one is linked to its restaurant's page, so you can go straight from watching to road-tripping.

How do I report a DDD restaurant has closed?

Open the restaurant's page on FlavortownUSA and use the status report link. Community reports feed our verification dashboard, and confirmed changes update the listing for everyone.

Myrtle Beach is on the map, Seattle has an episode coming, and the closure tracker is keeping the whole thing honest. We'll keep watching. You keep the road trips coming.