What Happened to Oleander Bar And Grill After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) traveled to Olean, New York, for an episode that first aired October 17, 2012. The Oleander Bar and Grill had been open only about six months, and owner Kelli Truman had financed the venture with a bank loan of roughly $100,000, credit-card debt of about $27,000, a $10,000 withdrawal from her retirement account, and $15,000 of personal savings. Kelli ran the business with her adult daughter, Abbi, and the two women's strained working relationship -- including tension the episode depicted over a pregnancy Abbi had not yet disclosed to her mother -- was presented as a central obstacle alongside the restaurant's kitchen and menu shortcomings.

As is standard for the series, Robert Irvine and his production crew spent roughly 48 hours and a budget of about $10,000 reworking the restaurant's food, layout, and decor before staging a relaunch dinner service for the two owners and the local community. The on-air verdict focused on repairing the mother-daughter working relationship as much as the food itself, with Irvine pushing the two women to communicate more directly about running the business together. What happened afterward is documented mainly in secondhand coverage rather than a dated, named news report.

A November 2013 post on the fan blog Food Network Gossip stated that the Oleander Bar and Grill had closed, roughly thirteen months after the episode aired, though the reporting behind that date has not been independently confirmed. Separately, a Yelp business listing for the restaurant's address at 833 East State Street in Olean currently shows a permanently-closed status, most recently updated in June 2026. No successor business name at the address was identified, and no statement from Kelli or Abbi Truman about the closure was located. The available sources show that the Oleander Bar and Grill did not remain open long-term after its Restaurant: Impossible renovation, but the exact closure date and circumstances rest on a fan-blog account rather than a confirmed primary source.