What Happened to Be'ne Pizza & Pasta After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Be'ne Pizza & Pasta in Omaha, Nebraska, for the episode "Game Over," which aired February 18, 2015, closing out the show's tenth season. The restaurant, run by the Lanphier family and known for a retro dining room that included arcade games, had operated for roughly fourteen years by the time of the episode. Robert Irvine's team applied the series' standard approach: reviewing the existing pizza-and-pasta menu and kitchen operations, renovating the space over about two days, and relaunching with an updated menu intended to modernize the restaurant's offerings while keeping its neighborhood identity.

The fan site Food Network Gossip's reporting put the closure around July 18, 2015, roughly five months after the episode aired, attributing the decision to the family after fourteen years in business; that account comes from a fan blog rather than a named news outlet. Yelp's listing for the business, located at 12301 West Maple Road in Omaha and last updated in May 2026, currently shows Be'ne Pizza & Pasta as closed, consistent with no reopening at that address in the years since. No information was found indicating that the Lanphier family reopened the restaurant under a different name or at a new address, nor was any information found about a new business occupying the West Maple Road location since Be'ne closed.

A retro-styled menu website referencing the restaurant's pizza and pasta offerings continues to exist online, but it functions as an archival or informational page rather than an active ordering system, and does not indicate the restaurant is currently operating. Be'ne Pizza & Pasta's closure, following the July 2015 date reported by the fan site source, places its run at roughly five months after the television makeover, one of the shorter post-renovation spans among the season's restaurants.