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Restaurant: Impossible · Season 5, Episode 8 · Aired February 20, 2013

Nanny Goats Cafe and Feed Bin

Kilgore, Texas

CLOSED

It closed and is no longer operating in 2013. The site is now home to Downtown D'Lites.

What happened after

Original Kilgore location closed (Nov 2013 per relayed reporting); space now occupied by Downtown D'Lites.

Closure date on record: 2013-11

What happened on the show

Nanny Goats Cafe and Feed Bin in Kilgore, Texas took its fifth season slot under the series formula, a two day reset funded on the modest budget the show keeps to. Wikipedia preserves no summary, so what Irvine tasted and rebuilt is left unstated instead of imagined. The Kilgore location eventually closed, with reporting placing it around November 2013, and the space is now home to Downtown D'Lites, whose own about page notes it occupies the room that formerly housed Nanny Goats. A same named business now operates in Longview, but nothing citable ties it to the Kilgore original as a relocation, so we treat the two as separate rather than claim a continuation. The address lives on as a different restaurant; the cafe Irvine visited does not.

After the cameras left

The original Kilgore location of Nanny Goats closed, with reporting placing it around November 2013, and the space is now occupied by Downtown D'Lites, whose own about page states it took over the spot that formerly housed the cafe. A business listing tags the Kilgore address closed. A same-named business now operates in nearby Longview, but no citable source links it as a relocation or continuation, so we treat it as a separate entity rather than a successor. Together the directory tag and the successor's own account put the closure at medium confidence.

Sources

Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.

What is there now

Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.

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