restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 9, Episode 7 · Aired September 3, 2014
El Bistro
Titusville, Pennsylvania
We could not confirm its current status.
On the show
Season 9, Episode 7 · September 3, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Take It Or Leave It"
What happened after
We have not been able to confirm what happened to this business since the episode aired. If you know its current status, we would like to hear from you.
What happened on the show
El Bistro operated on South Martin Street in Titusville, Pennsylvania when it drew its ninth season visit, renamed Renae's Corner during production as part of Irvine's reset. Beyond that rebrand, the two day makeover followed the show's usual shape for El Bistro, a compressed rebuild bankrolled on the program's lean makeover budget, though the specific troubles Irvine addressed are not preserved in any Wikipedia synopsis and are left unstated here. The restaurant's current status sits unresolved. Claims that it was renamed and then closed around 2015 trace only to banned trackers the site will not cite, while the one allowed directory listing is undated and carries no status signal. With nothing independently citable to lean on, we log El Bistro as genuinely unconfirmed and queue it for another pass.
After the cameras left
El Bistro's fate after its rename is beyond our verification. Claims that Renae's Corner later closed around 2015 trace only to competitor trackers we will not cite, and the sole allowed listing is undated and carries no status signal. That leaves the Titusville restaurant unverified. The dependable points are that it aired under the El Bistro name and was rebranded Renae's Corner during production; whether that business runs today no citable source confirmed, and it goes on the re-check list.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.