Is Big Dawg's Still Open? Restaurant: Impossible (FN) Update (Memphis, TN)

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) sent Chef Robert Irvine to Memphis, Tennessee, for "Hot Doggin' It in Memphis," which aired February 2, 2023, to help Tyrone Clements at Big Dawg's. Clements built the business from a hotdog cart into a storefront restaurant with his wife, O'Neka, and son Chuck, but by the time Irvine arrived the menu leaned on burgers, chicken, and wings rather than the hotdogs the name promised — a mismatch Irvine pointed out during the visit. Filming took place September 22 and 23, 2022, according to Local Memphis's coverage of the production, with Irvine's team using the standard two-day window to rework the menu around the restaurant's namesake dish and to help Clements separate the business's finances from the family's. After the episode aired, sales at Big Dawg's rose by about 50 percent, and Clements began making steady payments to O'Neka to ease the financial strain the restaurant had put on the family, according to a February 2023 recap by Food Network Gossip.

The restaurant now operates as Big Dawgs Memphis at 3057 Thomas Street, a site checked on September 8, 2026, that returned a live page with a working online-ordering link and current contact information for Clements's business. A separate Yelp listing for an address the business has also used, 4731 Austin Peay Highway, carries a permanently-closed designation updated in June 2026; available sources do not make clear whether that listing reflects a closed second location or an outdated entry for the same restaurant. Business records reviewed via LinkedIn list Tyrone Clements as the principal of BIG DAWG Memphis LLC, consistent with the Thomas Street location rather than the Austin Peay Highway address. The address supplied with our records, in Fall Branch, Tennessee, matched an unrelated restaurant roughly 500 miles from Memphis. The corrected address and coordinates for 3057 Thomas Street were confirmed against the Census Bureau's geocoder.