bar24 Hours to Hell and Back · Season 2, Episode 7 · Aired February 13, 2019
Boardwalk 11
Los Angeles, California
Yes. This one is still open.
What happened after
Karaoke bar at 10433 National Blvd operating daily 5pm-2am; Yelp reviews as recent as January 2026 confirm active operation.
What happened on the show
Ramsay returned to Los Angeles for a karaoke bar and ran into an owner he described as carrying thirty years of inexperience. The surveillance made the case that the man himself was the obstacle, and this episode featured the show's first genuine hostile takeover: Ramsay forced the owner out of the building entirely and handed operational control to the two Kats, the head chef and the bar manager, while the room was reworked into a gastropub and disco lounge. The recon and the confrontation both pointed the same way, that the staff already knew more about running the place than the person who owned it. Across the compressed day Ramsay rebuilt the food and the concept around the people who were actually competent, then delivered the reveal. His argument was that sometimes the kindest fix is to get the owner out of his own way.
After the cameras left
Boardwalk 11 stayed open. As of our latest verification pass the karaoke bar at 10433 National Boulevard was still operating daily from 5pm to 2am, with Yelp reviews as recent as January 2026 confirming active business. It was, however, the third restaurant in the series to undo Ramsay's changes, and reviews have drifted since 2020. So the bar survives, which is the headline, even if the version running today is not entirely the one Ramsay revealed at the buzzer.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.