What Happened to Mike Audia's Restaurant? (Nutter Fort, WV)

Mike Audia's Restaurant & Catering, an Italian restaurant Mike Audia opened in Nutter Fort, West Virginia, in 2008, was featured on Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) in the episode 'A Single Dad Sparks His Passion' (S15E7), which aired 2019-08-10. According to Food Network's episode description, Audia — a single father raising his children while running the restaurant — faced the possibility of losing both the business and his home, and the restaurant's menu had lost a clear identity across several cuisines. Robert Irvine's team carried out the show's standard two-day, $10,000 makeover, giving the restaurant a clearer Italian focus and a refreshed dining room.

WDTV, a West Virginia television station, covered the crew's arrival in Nutter Fort in 2019 and described the restaurant as a longstanding local fixture. In the months after the episode aired, daily sales rose to roughly $3,000 two months after the broadcast, according to coverage tied to the original airing. The turnaround did not last: WBOY-TV reported in January 2020 that Audia's Family Restaurant and Catering had closed permanently, with owner Mike Audia saying the building's landlord had decided to sell the property and forced the restaurant to leave.

A related report on the blog Candace Lately, also dated January 2020, covered the closure alongside a look back at the restaurant's run in Nutter Fort. Google Places lists the business as permanently closed, per a 2026-09-08 check, with no indication that Mike Audia's Restaurant & Catering, or a successor business under the Audia name, has reopened at the Buckhannon Pike address since the January 2020 closure. WBOY's report noted that Audia had operated the restaurant for years as an Italian eatery before the show's visit, and that the family had hoped the Restaurant: Impossible makeover would secure its future at the Buckhannon Pike location despite the eventual loss of the lease.