What Happened to Urban Roots After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

On Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network), Robert Irvine visited Urban Roots, a restaurant and jazz-influenced lounge in Oklahoma City's historic Deep Deuce neighborhood, for the episode "Face the Music." Chef-owner Chaya Fletcher had operated the business since 2010, and the episode focused on tension around her role as both the public face of the restaurant and the person responsible for its kitchen and finances. Irvine's team redesigned the dining room to play up the neighborhood's jazz heritage and reworked a menu that reviewers had previously described as inconsistent.

The restaurant's building sat at the corner of NE 2nd Street and Stiles Avenue in the Deep Deuce district, an area local business coverage described as undergoing broader redevelopment in the years around the show's visit. In the months following the April 9, 2014 broadcast, online reviews were largely positive, and the restaurant kept its Facebook page current with event listings and specials well into 2015. According to Food Network Gossip's coverage, Urban Roots ran into a lease problem when the building that housed it was sold and its rent was raised.

The restaurant's own Facebook page announced on June 6, 2015 that it would close, marking the end of what it described as five years in Deep Deuce; the post indicated ownership had tried to raise roughly fifteen thousand dollars through a fundraising push to cover the new rent but did not reach that goal. Coverage of Oklahoma City's Deep Deuce district has since noted the neighborhood's continued turnover of restaurant concepts in the years after Urban Roots left the corner of NE 2nd Street and Stiles Avenue. No source reviewed identifies a direct successor business operating under the Urban Roots name at 322 NE 2nd Street. The chef later remained active in the Oklahoma City food and community scene under a different surname, according to profile coverage unrelated to the Restaurant Impossible episode itself.