restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 20, Episode 5 · Aired January 13, 2022
KC's BBQ
Berkeley, Calif
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 20, Episode 5 · January 13, 2022 · restaurant
episode title: "Burnt Out in Berkeley"; business name/location auto-extracted from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Mashed.com: "KC's BBQ has remained in business and received decent reviews on review sites," ~4 stars from 428 Yelp reviews.
What happened on the show
A fifty-year family legacy had pushed Patrick into a deep depression at KC's BBQ in Berkeley. He had led his father's half-century-old restaurant to the brink of closing, and the episode centers the rescue on rebuilding his confidence, getting him to treat his daughter and co-owner Kirsten as a true partner, and helping him accept change so he could forge a legacy of his own. His two days ran from tasting the barbecue to reading the operation to rebuilding the room, capped by a reopening service, all aimed at pulling Patrick out from under the family weight. Because the teaser leans on his depression and that fifty-year burden, not the plates, what remains is a legacy barbecue joint whose survival depended on its owner climbing out from his own father's shadow.
After the cameras left
KC's BBQ is still in business. Mashed.com reports the restaurant remained open with decent reviews, carrying roughly four stars across some 428 Yelp reviews. We log it open, medium confidence, on that single secondary account. For an owner the episode showed sunk in depression over a fifty-year family legacy, keeping that business breathing past the visit is the result Irvine was after, even if the current-year read rests on secondary reporting.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.