What Happened to Rohrer's Tavern After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Rohrer's Tavern in North Bend, Ohio, for an episode that aired November 28, 2012. The tavern, a local fixture for more than sixty years along U.S. Route 50, was owned by Lisa Kendall and was struggling with declining sales and outdated food and decor by the time Robert Irvine and his crew arrived. Following the show's format, the team spent about two days and a roughly $10,000 budget rebuilding the menu around fresh ingredients in place of frozen food, and gutting and remodeling the tavern's interior, including new paint and a redesigned bar area.

A dining review published in Cincinnati Magazine shortly after the episode aired praised several of the reworked dishes, including a breaded-mozzarella appetizer and a hanger-steak entree, while describing the interior's new mustard-toned color scheme and refurbished bar. The fan blog Food Network Gossip later reported that business improved in the months after the relaunch, with sales rising by about $20,000 in a single month and the tavern drawing customers from outside the immediate area. That improvement did not last. The same fan blog reported in April 2014 that Rohrer's Tavern had closed on April 25, 2014, roughly seventeen months after the episode aired, and that owner Lisa Kendall had cited a family loss, a harsh winter, and falling sales among the reasons.

A Yelp listing for the tavern's Three Rivers Parkway address currently shows a permanently-closed status, most recently updated in March 2026, consistent with the business remaining closed since 2014. No subsequent business at the same address was identified, and the specific circumstances of the closure rest on the fan-blog account rather than a named news outlet. The building sits along U.S. 50 in the small Ohio River community of North Bend, a detail the show's own episode framing emphasized when introducing the tavern's decades of local history.