restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 5 · Aired November 20, 2013
Georgia Boy Cafe
Hagerstown, Maryland
This one did not make it. The business closed in 2014.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 5 · November 20, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Soul Searching"
What happened after
Yelp listing (seen via search snippet) tags the location CLOSED at 325 Virginia Ave.
Closure date on record: 2014-07
What happened on the show
Georgia Boy Cafe in Hagerstown, Maryland had its seventh season episode on the series, with Irvine bringing the standard two day rescue and lean renovation budget to a struggling soul food kitchen. The Wikipedia list preserves no genuine synopsis, so the on camera beats of the visit are left off the page rather than filled with guesswork. The cafe later closed at its Virginia Avenue address, its Park Circle location tagged closed on Yelp, which serves as the independent basis for the status here. Reported closure dates for the place trace only to trackers the site keeps off the record, so we lean on the directory tag instead. Among seventh season entries, Georgia Boy joins the group whose televised fresh start did not translate into a lasting business.
After the cameras left
Georgia Boy Cafe is closed, with a Yelp listing tagging the Virginia Avenue location as such. A more specific closing date, a final day around July 31, 2014 at a Park Circle location, comes only from banned trackers we do not cite, so we rest the status on the independent Yelp tag; because the direct Yelp fetch was blocked and the evidence is snippet-based, we hold it at medium confidence. A Hagerstown soul-food restaurant could not sustain its television rescue and went dark within roughly a year of the episode.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.