Is GiGi's Place Still Open? Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) Update

GiGi's Place is a soul food restaurant at 3265 Salem Road in Covington, Georgia, run by owner Cynthia "GiGi" Brown as a Black- and woman-owned family business. Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) featured the business in the episode "Fighting for Gigi," which aired 2023-02-16, with filming in October 2022. According to realitytvrecap.com, the restaurant's food was not the core problem when Robert Irvine arrived; instead, GiGi's daughter and her head chef were locked in ongoing conflict that made it difficult for GiGi to delegate kitchen duties.

GiGi needed to step back from day-to-day work because of her own health, but friction between her daughter and the chef stood in the way. Realitytvrecap.com described Irvine's approach as centered on repairing those relationships before addressing kitchen operations, working through the interpersonal tension ahead of the show's usual renovation and a relaunch service meant to let the kitchen run without GiGi mediating every dispute. Realitytvrecap.com reported, in an update last verified January 2026, that GiGi's Place remained operational at its Covington location, carrying a 3.9-star Yelp rating from more than 117 reviews.

The site listed posted hours of Tuesday through Saturday noon to 8 p.m. and Sunday noon to 7 p.m., and said the restaurant had added delivery through DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. A Yelp listing for the business, updated June 2026, continued to show the restaurant active at the Salem Road address under the name Gigi's Place, with 131 reviews recorded. The restaurant's website, gigisplacesoulfoods.com, hosted an active Toast ordering page for online orders and catering, though an automated check of the ordering subdomain on 2026-09-08 returned an access-denied response rather than page content, which appears to reflect a bot block rather than the ordering system being offline. Google Places listed the business as operational at 3265 Salem Road, matching the address above. No source found for this update indicated GiGi's Place had closed or changed ownership since the episode aired.