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Is West Street Willy's Still Open? You Gotta Eat Here! Update

You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 3 Goderich, Ontario

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, West Street Willy's is listed open on weststreetwillyseatery.com, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website, with a page modified date in July 2026, lists current weekly hours and notes hours updates made in 2025. How we decide a status →

What happened after You Gotta Eat Here!?

TVmaze's summary of the You Gotta Eat Here! episode that aired on 2014-06-20 says host John Catucci ate red-velvet pancakes for breakfast, a pig-in-a-blanket sandwich and chicken-and-shrimp ciao mein; West Street Willy's is the first restaurant named in the episode title. West Street Willy's Eatery is a restaurant at 42 West Street in Goderich, Ontario, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Its own website describes a local hangout with homemade soups and daily features, and a lounge called WEST 42 that opens after 8 pm on Thursdays and Fridays.

The website also notes that the restaurant was featured in season 3 of the show on Food Network Canada. Since the broadcast, the website posted hours updates dated 2025-07-14 and 2025-10-16, and its page metadata shows a modified date of 2026-07-03. The hours it lists are 8 am to 8 pm on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and 8 am to late on Thursdays and Fridays, with Mondays and Tuesdays closed. The website offers dine-in and takeout and takes no reservations.

The episode You Gotta Eat Here!, Season 3

Episode 21
Aired
Title: West Street Willy's, The Big Feast, Q BBQ House · What was featured: Red-velvet pancakes for breakfast, per TVmaze's episode summary

Synopsis (tvmaze.com) : John has red-velvet pancakes for breakfast, a pig-in-a-blanket sandwich, and chicken-and-shrimp "ciao" mein.

Also in Season 3 You Gotta Eat Here!

Season 3: 37 of 78 still open · 5 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. weststreetwillyseatery.com http://weststreetwillyseatery.com/
  2. api.tvmaze.com https://api.tvmaze.com/shows/15676/episodes
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Record ygeh-205 · checked by Cal Marchetti.