restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 12 · Aired January 29, 2014
Hillbillies Restaurant
Murphys, California
This one did not make it. The business closed.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 12 · January 29, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Dirty Laundry"
What happened after
Restaurant Guru direct-fetch confirms 'permanently closed'; most recent visible review is roughly 2 years old.
What happened on the show
Hillbillies Restaurant in Murphys, California, owned by Jami Saul, got a seventh season slot by the program's standard setup, a 48 hour intervention funded on the network's capped renovation spend. No rundown survives on Wikipedia, so how Irvine reshaped the place is not detailed here. The restaurant has since closed, confirmed through Restaurant Guru's direct listing, with the most recent visible review roughly two years old. Notably it went out on decent footing by the numbers, carrying around a 4.1 rating across more than a thousand reviews in a late 2023 snapshot before shutting. That makes Hillbillies one of the quieter closures in the catalog, a well reviewed small town spot that closed for reasons the public record does not spell out rather than any obvious collapse in quality.
After the cameras left
Hillbillies Restaurant has permanently closed. A Restaurant Guru page, confirmed by direct fetch, marks it permanently closed, and the most recent visible review sits about two years old, consistent with a shutdown rather than a quiet spell, so this is a high-confidence call. No exact date is documented, so we leave it unstated, but the Murphys spot that once pulled more than eleven hundred reviews at roughly 4.1 stars is gone, its healthy review count outlasting the operation it once described.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.