What Happened to Nanny Goats Cafe and Feed Bin? (Kilgore, TX)

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Nanny Goat's Cafe and Feed Bin in Kilgore, Texas, for an episode that aired February 20, 2013. The Longview News-Journal previewed the show's arrival in the area, and according to Food Network's own episode description, owner Nancy Dupre, once a successful restaurant operator, had depleted her savings keeping the cafe running, and a strained relationship with her daughter Jessica, who worked as the cook, was contributing to tension that affected both staff and customers; the combined cafe-and-feed-store concept also confused customers, per that same description, about what kind of business it was. As is standard for the series, Robert Irvine and his crew worked within a two-day window and a roughly $10,000 budget to address kitchen food-safety practices, simplify the menu, and reorganize the dining room.

A recap published by the entertainment site Mashed described Dupre leaving the set on the first day of the renovation before returning the next day in a calmer state and recommitting to the process, with Jessica agreeing to take a more active role in the kitchen. Despite the renovation, Dupre ultimately chose to sell the property and retire from the restaurant business. The fan blog Food Network Gossip reported around November 2013 that Nanny Goat's Cafe and Feed Bin had closed, roughly nine months after the episode aired, though that account has not been independently confirmed.

A Yelp listing for the Kilgore Street address currently shows a permanently-closed status, most recently updated in August 2026, consistent with the business no longer operating there. A separate, similarly named business, Nanny Goat's Feed Bin, operates in nearby Longview, Texas, but no source confirms any ownership connection between the two. Kilgore itself is a small East Texas city best known for its 1930s oil-boom history, a backdrop the episode's local news preview referenced when introducing the cafe to viewers outside the region.