barKitchen Nightmares Australia · Season 1, Episode 3 · Aired October 26, 2022
Cafe Martini
Wangaratta
Yes. This one is still open.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 3 · October 26, 2022 · country pub
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
Country pub/cafe at 87 Murphy St, Wangaratta VIC, serving pizza/coffee/tea. Multiple current business-directory and review-platform listings (TripAdvisor, Restaurant Guru, Yelp, Zomato) with posted current hours suggest it remains open.
What happened on the show
Cafe Martini struck Colin Fassnidge as a place frozen in time. The show framed his visit to the daggy country pub in Wangaratta, Victoria, around two things: food he found genuinely bad and owners deep in denial about it. That combination, a kitchen putting out poor plates and a front of house unwilling to admit it, is the hardest version of the job, because the fixer has to break through the denial before any menu change can stick. Fassnidge had his usual five days to revive both the pub and the people running it. This was the third episode of the 2022 Seven Network season, and it plays to the series' regional-Australia focus, a venue caught in a time warp while the world moved on around it. His task at Cafe Martini was less about inventing a new concept than dragging an outdated country pub, and owners comfortable in that outdatedness, into the present before the clock ran out.
After the cameras left
Cafe Martini looks to have survived. Current business-directory and review-platform listings place it still trading at 87 Murphy Street in Wangaratta, serving pizza, coffee, and tea, with posted hours that suggest an active operation. The caveat is the evidence: the strongest first-party confirmation would not load on our checks, leaving us with directory and snippet data that can lag the real world. So we log Cafe Martini as most likely open and hold the confidence at medium rather than claiming certainty. For a country pub the 2022 episode caught stuck in the past, continued trading years later would count as a modest win for the format, and the available signals point that way even if they stop short of proving it outright.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.