What Happened to McShane's After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?
Current status
As of September 2026, McShane's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
Last verified
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); a 2013 blog account's claim about the owner's pivot to catering and a food truck is unconfirmed and noted only as a lead.
- Season / episode Season 2, Episode 13
- Original air date
- Address 6801 Kinne St, East Syracuse, NY 13057
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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 As shown in the episode, the restaurant was losing customers to an outdated dining room and a menu Robert Irvine's team felt needed to be refocused, and the team's renovation followed the show's usual format, updating the dining space,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; because that account has not been traced to a named news outlet or an official statement from Baker herself, it is treated here as an unverified lead rather than a confirmed source.
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 located during this research pass, and the street address itself could not be confidently matched to a mapping-service coordinate, since available geocoding tools returned a nearby but not exactly matching record for the street name and ZIP code.
Because the only dated confirmation is a maps-style listing, this record is logged at the "reported" confidence tier, with sign-off from the site owner still pending and all sources kept on file. No other Restaurant: Impossible or Food Network appearances tied to this address were identified.
Featured on Restaurant: Impossible
- Season / episode
- Season 2, Episode 13
- Original air date
- Episode title
- McShane's
- What was featured
- chicken-focused restaurant and pub renovation: dining update, menu narrowing
- Role
- Featured restaurant
- Name on the broadcast
- McShane's
Frequently asked questions
Is McShane's still open in 2026?
As of September 2026, McShane's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
What happened to McShane's after Restaurant: Impossible?
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 of September 2026, McShane's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
Is McShane's permanently closed?
As of September 2026, McShane's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.
Where is McShane's located?
6801 Kinne St, East Syracuse, NY 13057. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.
What season and episode of Restaurant: Impossible featured McShane's?
Season 2, Episode 13 of Restaurant: Impossible, first aired November 9, 2011. The episode is titled “McShane's”.
Did the makeover last at McShane's?
The episode first aired November 9, 2011. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 15 years later —: As of September 2026, McShane's has closed — confirmed via Yelp, August 2026.
Is McShane's still using the Restaurant: Impossible menu or branding?
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. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.
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Visit info
- Address
- 6801 Kinne St, East Syracuse, NY 13057
- Venue type
- restaurant
- Official website
- None found
- State hub
- TV restaurants in New York
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Sources
- 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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