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What Happened to Snooty Fox After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

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As of September 2026, Snooty Fox has closed — confirmed via ibj.com, October 2011.

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What the source shows: The Indianapolis Business Journal reported that Snooty Fox closed after 29 years in business; Yelp's listing for the same address is independently marked permanently closed as of an August 2026 update.

  • Season / episode Season 2, Episode 5
  • Original air date
  • Address 1435 E 86th St, Indianapolis, IN 46240

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What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) profiled Snooty Fox, a long-running English-style pub restaurant at 1435 E 86th St in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the Season 2 episode "Snooty Fox," which aired August 3, 2011. As shown in the episode, the restaurant had operated for close to three decades but was losing customers to a tired look and inconsistent food, and Robert Irvine's team used the show's usual two-day turnaround to rebuild the dining room, retrain kitchen staff, and simplify the menu before a relaunch dinner for regulars and neighborhood diners.

The restaurant's run did not last long past the broadcast. The Indianapolis Business Journal reported that Snooty Fox closed after 29 years in business, describing an initial post-episode boost in traffic that did not hold once the novelty wore off. That closure is corroborated by a separate, independently maintained source: Yelp's business listing for the 1435 E 86th St address is marked permanently closed, with the listing most recently updated in August 2026.

A tracker-style restaurant directory site notes, without independent confirmation, that the former Snooty Fox space was later occupied by an unrelated brewery-restaurant business as of 2022; because that claim comes from an aggregator rather than a dated news article or an official statement from either business, it is treated here as an unconfirmed lead and is not the basis for any ownership or renaming classification for Snooty Fox itself. Snooty Fox, as the restaurant featured on the episode, is not the same legal or operating entity as whatever business may now occupy the address.

Taken together, a named local business publication and an independently updated maps listing point to the same outcome for the restaurant that was featured on Restaurant: Impossible: it stopped operating at the 86th Street address years ago. Given that both sources are dated and independent of each other, this record would ordinarily meet a higher evidentiary bar, but it is still logged at the "reported" tier with sign-off pending, consistent with how this dataset treats every closure until the site owner reviews the sources on file.

Featured on Restaurant: Impossible

Season / episode
Season 2, Episode 5
Original air date
Episode title
Snooty Fox
What was featured
pub restaurant renovation: dining room rebuild, menu simplification, staff retraining
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Snooty Fox

Frequently asked questions

Is Snooty Fox still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Snooty Fox has closed — confirmed via ibj.com, October 2011.

What happened to Snooty Fox after Restaurant: Impossible?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) profiled Snooty Fox, a long-running English-style pub restaurant at 1435 E 86th St in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the Season 2 episode "Snooty Fox," which aired August 3, 2011. As of September 2026, Snooty Fox has closed — confirmed via ibj.com, October 2011.

Is Snooty Fox permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Snooty Fox has closed — confirmed via ibj.com, October 2011. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Snooty Fox located?

1435 E 86th St, Indianapolis, IN 46240. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant: Impossible featured Snooty Fox?

Season 2, Episode 5 of Restaurant: Impossible, first aired August 3, 2011. The episode is titled “Snooty Fox”.

Did the makeover last at Snooty Fox?

The episode first aired August 3, 2011. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 15 years later —: As of September 2026, Snooty Fox has closed — confirmed via ibj.com, October 2011.

What do reviews say since Restaurant: Impossible?

Given that both sources are dated and independent of each other, this record would ordinarily meet a higher evidentiary bar, but it is still logged at the "reported" tier with sign-off pending, consistent with how this dataset treats every closure until the site owner reviews the sources on file. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

Is Snooty Fox still using the Restaurant: Impossible menu or branding?

As shown in the episode, the restaurant had operated for close to three decades but was losing customers to a tired look and inconsistent food, and Robert Irvine's team used the show's usual two-day turnaround to rebuild the dining room, retrain kitchen staff, and simplify the menu before a relaunch dinner for regulars and neighborhood diners. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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1435 E 86th St, Indianapolis, IN 46240
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Sources

  • ibj.com — https://www.ibj.com/articles/30208-snooty-fox-restaurant-closes-after-29-years
  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/snooty-fox-indianapolis
  • tvfoodmaps.com — https://www.tvfoodmaps.com/restaurant/IN/Indianapolis/Snooty-Fox-CLOSED

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