barKitchen Nightmares (US) · Season 6, Episode 7 · Aired January 25, 2013
Olde Hitching Post Restaurant and Tavern
Hanson, MA
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 6, Episode 7 · January 25, 2013 · tavern
Revisited in S7E10 (2014-09-12).
What happened after
Official site (oldehp.com) is live with matching address/phone but did not show unambiguous current hours on fetch. Independent source restaurantjump.com states it is 'still open but with new owners.' Active Facebook page (2,100 likes).
What happened on the show
Tom Kessaris had bought the Olde Hitching Post so he could one day hand it to his daughter Andrea, then spent years refusing to actually let go, convinced she was not ready. His manager called him a dictator; Tom himself put it as my way is the only way, because my way is the right way, and he belittled his staff while cutting corners on ingredients and bleeding 7,000 dollars a week. Andrea insisted she resisted her father only because he was so stubborn. The food carried his cheapness: lobster ravioli that was not fresh or even properly heated, which Ramsay spat out saying he could not do that to his stomach, a watery bland cranberry haddock he compared to a bear's mess in the woods, and disgusting unseasoned meatloaf. His three cooks were candid that the food was outdated and that they were powerless to change what Tom dictated.
After the cameras left
The Olde Hitching Post is still going in Hanson, now under new ownership. The official site is live and an independent listing describes it as still open with new owners, though our fetch could not pin down current-year hours with total certainty, so it holds a notch below full confidence. Either way, the tavern Tom Kessaris ran like a fiefdom outlasted the on-air crisis, ultimately surviving in different hands rather than joining the show's long casualty list.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.