Buckhead Diner was a well-known diner in Atlanta’s Buckhead district, long located on Piedmont Road. With its polished retro-diner design, curved exterior, and prominent roadside presence, it became one of the city’s most recognisable restaurant buildings. Although the restaurant itself closed in 2020, the building has remained standing and has continued to be used for screen production.
Buckhead Diner appears in DTF St. Louis (2026), and the building has also been used for other Atlanta-shot productions. The DTF St. Louis scene in which Floyd expects to meet a woman from the app, only to discover that the profile picture was David Bowie and that he is actually meeting a man. Reports and local filming coverage also connect the site to Will Trent.
In DTF St. Louis (2026), Buckhead Diner is used for the scene where Floyd arrives for what he believes is a date with a woman he met through the DTF app. Instead, the profile turns out to have been a photo of David Bowie, something he failed to notice because he was not wearing his glasses, and the person waiting for him is a man. The diner is used directly as the meeting place for one of the series’ comic set-pieces.
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