restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 5, Episode 9 · Aired February 27, 2013
Dinner Bell
Madison, Tennessee
This one did not make it. The business closed.
What happened after
Yellow Pages listing tags the establishment CLOSED.
What happened on the show
Dinner Bell was the Madison restaurant Robert Irvine took on in the fifth season, on Gallatin Pike North. The durable record holds few specifics of the Dinner Bell visit, and Wikipedia gives this Madison episode no summary. The routine at Dinner Bell was consistent: the food on the palate, the Madison kitchen inspected, the owners confronted, and the Madison dining room remade across two days on a modest budget. We leave the Dinner Bell specifics blank rather than guess, since Madison coverage preserved no dish or decor detail. Honest thinness beats a manufactured recap, so for Dinner Bell in Madison we hold to what the record supports. One clarification matters: a separate Dinner Bell in Sweetwater, Tennessee has its own closure story that does not belong to this Madison location.
After the cameras left
Dinner Bell in Madison is closed, per a Yellow Pages listing that tags the establishment as such, though no specific closing date surfaced. On the strength of that single directory tag we hold the closure at medium confidence. One caution guides the record here: a news story about a Dinner Bell closing after forty-seven years concerns an unrelated same-named restaurant in Sweetwater, Tennessee, not this Gallatin Pike location, and we do not use it as evidence. The Madison business appears to have gone dark at some point after its episode.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.