What Happened to McShane's After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?
Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network), Season 2 East Syracuse, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, McShane's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for McShane's Restaurant & Pub at 6801 Kinne St in East Syracuse is marked permanently closed (updated August 2026). How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 13
- Aired
- Address 6801 Kinne St, East Syracuse, NY 13057
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?
Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) featured McShane's, a chicken-focused restaurant and pub near 6801 Kinne St in East Syracuse, New York, in the Season 2 episode "McShane's," which aired November 9, 2011. As shown in the episode, the restaurant was losing customers to an outdated dining room and a menu Robert Irvine's team felt needed to be refocused, and the team's renovation followed the show's usual format, updating the dining space, narrowing the menu, and retraining staff, before a relaunch service intended to give the ownership a fresh start with regular customers and a simplified kitchen to run. McShane's continued operating for a period after the broadcast before its owner shifted the business in a different direction.
A 2013 blog post covering the show's past contestants reported, without an on-the-record statement quoted directly, that owner Cindy Baker was moving away from the sit-down restaurant model toward catering and a food truck concept; that account has not been traced to a named news outlet or an official statement from Baker herself. The clearer, independently dated confirmation is Yelp's business listing for the Kinne Street address, which is marked permanently closed and was last updated in August 2026. No archived Syracuse-area news coverage describing an exact closing date was found. The only dated confirmation available is a maps-style listing. No other Restaurant: Impossible or Food Network appearances tied to this address were identified.
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Sources we checked
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/mcshanes-restaurant-and-pub-east-syracuse-2
- foodnetworkgossip.com https://www.foodnetworkgossip.com/2013/05/mcshanes-from-restaurant-impossible-to.html
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