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What Happened to Tecolote Café After Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

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As of September 2026, Tecolote Café has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, November 20, 2025.

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What the source shows: A DDD-locations tracking listing updated 2025-11-20 lists Tecolote Cafe's phone number and address permanently closed; the business's own Facebook page has also posted a closure announcement citing the owners' health.

  • Season / episode Season 3, Episode 3
  • Original air date
  • Address 1203 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505

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What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Tecolote Café during the 'Regional Favorites' episode for its blue corn pancakes and red-and-green chile breakfast specialties. The cafe operated as a Mexican-inspired diner on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known for a scratch breakfast and lunch menu built around New Mexican chile. The restaurant later relocated to St. Michael's Drive, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. A tracking listing updated 2025-11-20 marks the restaurant's phone number and address permanently closed, and the business's Facebook page has posted a closure notice citing the owners' health as a factor in the decision. Tecolote first opened on Cerrillos Road in 1980 under founders Bill and Alice Jennison, whose daughter Katie and her husband Matt Adkins later took over the business, according to the Santa Fe Reporter's coverage of the closure.

Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Season / episode
Season 3, Episode 3
Original air date
Episode title
Regional Favorites
What was featured
Blue corn pancakes and red/green chile breakfast specialties
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Tecolote Café

Frequently asked questions

Is Tecolote Café still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Tecolote Café has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, November 20, 2025.

What happened to Tecolote Café after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited Tecolote Café during the 'Regional Favorites' episode for its blue corn pancakes and red-and-green chile breakfast specialties. As of September 2026, Tecolote Café has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, November 20, 2025.

Is Tecolote Café permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Tecolote Café has closed — confirmed via dinersdriveinsdiveslocations.com, November 20, 2025. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Tecolote Café located?

1203 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Tecolote Café?

Season 3, Episode 3 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, first aired March 24, 2008. The episode is titled “Regional Favorites”.

Is Tecolote Café still using the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives menu or branding?

The cafe operated as a Mexican-inspired diner on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, known for a scratch breakfast and lunch menu built around New Mexican chile. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Visit info

Address
1203 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Venue type
cafe
Official website
None found

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