Is Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant Still Open? (Lebanon, NH)

Part 1 — Season 15, Episode 6 Aired August 3, 2019

Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) returned to Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant in Lebanon, New Hampshire, in the follow-up episode 'Revisited: Family Regains Confidence' (S15E6), which aired 2019-08-03. Robert Irvine had originally rescued the restaurant, owned by husband-and-wife team Nick Yager and Maria Limon, in a 2012 episode after the six-year-old business ran into food and operations problems, according to coverage of the original episode. The revisit checked in on the couple's progress since that 2012 makeover, with the segment's title pointing to renewed confidence in the family's management of the restaurant. Reviews of Gusanoz posted on Yelp and Tripadvisor in the years after the original episode were largely positive, though a minority of reviewers felt the Restaurant: Impossible renovation had changed the restaurant's original character.

Part 2 — Season 4, Episode 6 Aired August 29, 2012

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant in Lebanon, New Hampshire, for an episode that aired August 29, 2012. As shown in the episode, owners Nick Yager and Maria Limon were struggling to keep their six-year-old restaurant afloat and needed Robert Irvine's help to turn the business around within the show's two-day, $10,000 format. Irvine's team rebuilt the restaurant's menu and dining room around Limon's own background, drawing on recipes tied to her upbringing near a family-run food stand in Durango, Mexico, to sharpen the kitchen's focus on authentic dishes rather than a generic Tex-Mex lineup.

The renovation also refreshed the dining room itself so the space better matched the food coming out of the kitchen, and gave the staff a clearer, more manageable menu to execute during busy dinner service. Gusanoz continued operating at 410 Miracle Mile in Lebanon for more than a decade after the episode aired. According to the Valley News, a local newspaper covering the Upper Valley region (January 20, 2025), the restaurant's owners had filed for bankruptcy, a filing that also affected two related Gusanoz locations in nearby Hanover and West Lebanon; Yelp listings for those two satellite locations are now marked permanently closed.

According to the Valley News (April 6, 2026), the original Lebanon location had come through that bankruptcy process, exiting proceedings and remaining open amid an uncertain economy, and described the restaurant as continuing to serve customers at its longtime Miracle Mile address more than thirteen years after Irvine's visit, even as the two smaller satellite locations the family had opened did not survive the same financial pressures. The restaurant's own listings show it operating daily except for major holidays, and its Yelp page for the Miracle Mile address remained active, without a closed designation, as of an April 2026 review update.

Part 3 — Season 7, Episode x87 Aired November 20, 2013

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) revisited Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant in Lebanon, New Hampshire, as part of a follow-up segment billed as "Restaurant More Impossible," which aired November 20, 2013, in the same broadcast slot as that week's new full-length episode, "Soul Searching." Gusanoz had originally been renovated by chef Robert Irvine in a season 4 episode that aired in 2012. The follow-up format used by the show in this period paired a check-in on a previously renovated restaurant with the week's new episode rather than devoting a standalone hour to the return visit.

Coverage from the fan sites PopThruster and Reality TV Revisited describes Gusanoz as having continued operating successfully in the years following its original renovation, with generally positive customer reviews referenced in both summaries. No further detail about the specific content of the November 2013 follow-up segment itself, such as what Irvine found on his return, was found.