What Happened to Mystic Treats After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Mystic Treats in Ashland, Oregon, for the episode "Mystic Mystery," which aired January 28, 2015. The business combined a bakery and a pizza counter, and the episode showed the owners under pressure to vacate their space at the time they sought help from the show. Robert Irvine's team carried out the series' standard intervention: reviewing the existing menu and kitchen operations, renovating the space over roughly two days, and relaunching with a reworked menu intended to stabilize the business's finances enough to keep the lease.

Southern Oregon news station KOBI-TV NBC5 reported that Mystic Treats closed a little more than a month after the television renovation aired, with the station attributing the closure to the same underlying financial and lease pressures shown on the episode rather than to any new development. Based on the January 28, 2015 air date, the station's own "a little more than a month after" framing points to early March 2015 as the likely closure timeframe. Yelp's listing for the business at 2345 Ashland Street, Suite 205 in Ashland, last updated in October 2024, continues to show Mystic Treats as closed, consistent with no reopening in the years since KOBI-TV's report.

No information was found indicating a new tenant, new ownership, or a renamed business operating at the Ashland Street suite since Mystic Treats departed. Mystic Treats represents one of the more rapid post-renovation closures among the season's episodes researched in the show: rather than an extended decline, the business appears to have closed within weeks of the broadcast, a timeline directly reported by a named local news outlet rather than relying on fan site commentary alone. No further business activity under the Mystic Treats name was identified in Ashland or elsewhere in Oregon.

The episode aired as the fifth installment of the show's tenth season, a season in which several featured restaurants, based on the research gathered across the show, closed within roughly a year of their broadcasts, including Shade Tree Customs & Cafe and Be'ne Pizza & Pasta. Mystic Treats had built a following in Ashland for its combination of pastries and by-the-slice pizza before the lease pressure shown on the episode; no information was found describing what business, if any, later took over the Ashland Street suite.