restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 16, Episode 6 · Aired January 30, 2020
Carmine's Chianti Cow
Port Jervis, N.Y
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 16, Episode 6 · January 30, 2020 · restaurant
episode title: "Out with the Old, In with the New"; business name/location auto-extracted from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Italian restaurant (parmigiana, marsala, piccata, house lasagna) still operating; Feb 2026-dated Yelp review found ('cute date night spot').
What happened on the show
An owner in the middle of an identity crisis was the problem Irvine walked into at Carmine's Chianti Cow, a small-town Italian spot near Port Jervis. Chef Keith had inherited the place and then, in the show's telling, gotten stuck, serving the same food the previous owner had, unable or unwilling to make it his own, and letting a potential local gem drift toward closing. The setup the episode lays out is a wake-up call more than a kitchen disaster. Irvine's two days follow the established rhythm from there: sample the menu that Keith was coasting on, work the kitchen, and force the confrontation about who Keith actually wanted to be behind that stove, before the design team refreshed the room on the show's modest budget and a relaunch tested the new direction. Because the surviving summary centers on Keith's mindset rather than specific dishes or a plated reveal, that is where the honest version of this visit stays, on the man being pushed to stop cooking someone else's restaurant and start running his own.
After the cameras left
The push seems to have taken. Carmine's Chianti Cow still trades as an Italian kitchen known for parmigiana, marsala, piccata and a house lasagna, and the freshest signal we could find is a February 2026 Yelp review calling it a cute date-night spot. The listing places it at 1483 US Highway 6, technically just over in Greenville, a couple of miles from the interstate. Confirmed operating as of early 2026, though the read here leans on directory and review evidence rather than a direct word from the owner.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.