Restaurant: Impossible · S22 E2
Amigo Cafe
Kayenta, Arizona
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
The short answer
Active Yelp listing (4.4/5, 424 reviews), ranked #1 of 14 restaurants in Kayenta on TripAdvisor; operating since 1983.
What happened on the show
The surviving summary for this one is brief, so we keep the account honest and short. Amigo Cafe sits in Kayenta, Arizona, deep in the Navajo Nation, and has served the area since 1983. The season 22 episode carried the title Living Up to Mom, which suggests a family-legacy story, an owner working in a parent's shadow, though the Wikipedia list preserves no fuller synopsis to confirm the details, and we will not manufacture them. What is safe to state is only the broad shape of such a visit: two days in which Irvine works through the food, checks the kitchen, and forces the real trouble into daylight before his crew rapidly redoes the room on a tight figure and a reopening night follows. For this longtime Kayenta cafe, that framework is as far as the documented record honestly reaches.
After the cameras left
Amigo Cafe is still going strong. It carries a 4.4 across 424 Yelp reviews and ranks first of fourteen Kayenta restaurants on TripAdvisor, a genuinely durable business operating since 1983 on US Highway 163. On that directory evidence we treat it as open, medium confidence, at our latest pass. That kind of longevity on the edge of the Navajo Nation is its own answer, and it sits comfortably against the episode's family-legacy framing.
Location
US Highway 163, Kayenta AZ 86033
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Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.