What Happened to Cocoamoda After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Calvert, Texas, a small town along the old Southern Pacific rail line, for the episode "Chocolate: Impossible," which aired April 1, 2015, as the show's season 11, episode 3. The featured business, Cocoamoda, combined a French-style bistro, an event space, and a chocolate boutique under owner Ken Wilkinson, who had opened the operation about seven years before host Robert Irvine's visit. According to the episode's account, the bistro carried significant debt, a problem the show attributed in part to limited advertising and outreach to the surrounding community.

Local newspaper the Bryan-College Station Eagle covered the two-day renovation as it happened, describing production activity at the Calvert storefront. On air, Irvine's team reworked the dining room and menu and pushed Wilkinson toward broader marketing and community engagement to build a steadier customer base beyond the chocolate shop's destination-dessert draw. Coverage compiled well after the broadcast, on fan sites Reality TV Revisited and Food Network Gossip, describes a serious fall Wilkinson suffered from a ladder in 2016 that left him with lasting health effects.

Those sources say Wilkinson and his wife, Jacqueline, subsequently shifted their focus toward the Waco, Texas area, where Jacqueline took a larger role making truffles and the business continued selling confections, including through a stint at a Waco coffee shop, under the Cocoamoda name. Those secondary accounts do not specify whether the original Calvert bistro, event space, or retail storefront continued operating afterward, but in a September 2026 check, Google's listing for 518 Main St in Calvert marked the business permanently closed. The Cocoamoda brand's own website remains active and references the Waco area, but does not carry a dated operating-status statement for the Calvert location specifically.