What Happened to Snooty Fox 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 fan site-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.