What Happened to The Park Restaurant & Bar? (Oak Park, CA)

The Park Restaurant & Bar, a gastropub in Oak Park, California, appeared in the seventh episode of Season 3, airing February 18, 2020. Owners Kirin Stone and Angelika Baran had recently lost their home in the 2018 Woolsey Fire, and the strain showed in the business: the restaurant had no head chef or manager and was, according to the show, only weeks from closing when Ramsay arrived. With nobody in charge of the kitchen, Ramsay enlisted NFL player Rob Gronkowski to help select a new head chef during the reconnaissance phase.

The relaunch did not go smoothly: a senior line cook fell ill during the event, and Ramsay found Stone unsuited to run the kitchen pass as expeditor. The three-month check-in revealed the deeper toll of the ordeal: Stone and Baran were under personal strain, a young line cook who had been passed over for a promised position quit, and Stone told producers he was still struggling to keep the doors open. The Lindero Canyon Road space had a turbulent history well before Ramsay arrived — the same unit had previously housed a restaurant called On The Thirty, which shut down in December 2016, and Leila's, which shut down in April 2015, before The Park Restaurant and Bar first opened there in June 2017 promoting "California's finest foods, wines."

That struggle did not resolve. Local coverage from the Conejo Valley Guide placed the business as still closed as of a May 29, 2021 update, with the space listed as available for lease; fan sites had already reported a December 2020 closure date, which has not been independently confirmed. What is well corroborated is that the restaurant never reopened after its pandemic-era closure, and the Lindero Canyon Road space has since changed hands; a Yelp business listing for the address independently marks it permanently closed as of a July 2026 update.