restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 9, Episode 2 · Aired July 30, 2014
Marie's at Ummat Cafe
Atlanta, Georgia
This one did not make it. The business closed.
On the show
Season 9, Episode 2 · July 30, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Culture Clash"
What happened after
Yelp listing reports location has closed.
What happened on the show
Marie's at Ummat Cafe, on Atlanta's southeast side, drew its ninth season turn under the show's compact formula, Irvine handed two days and the network's small renovation fund to steady a struggling kitchen. Whatever Irvine tasted and reworked at Marie's is not documented in the Wikipedia synopsis, which is blank for this episode, so the on air detail stays off the page rather than filled with invention. The aftermath points toward a closure. A Yelp listing reports that the location has since shut, the clearest available signal, though a separate undated directory entry still shows hours and is most likely a stale auto generated page. On balance Marie's reads as closed, one more ninth season entry whose televised reset did not translate into staying power.
After the cameras left
Marie's at Ummat Cafe has closed. A Yelp listing reports that the location has closed, which anchors the status, while a separate undated directory listing still shows hours and reads as a stale, auto-generated entry rather than a live signal. Because the closure rests on a snippet rather than a directly loaded page, we rate this a medium call. The Atlanta cafe no longer trades on Fayetteville Road; the conflicting directory hours do not outweigh the explicit closed report.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.