restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 2, Episode 9 · Aired September 14, 2011
Off Street Cafe
Cerritos, California
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 2, Episode 9 · September 14, 2011 · restaurant
revisited in S15E10 (2019-08-17)
What happened after
official site live; family-owned 25+ years, active Yelp (4,081 reviews)/TripAdvisor/Facebook; spine notes revisit S15E10 2019-08-17
What happened on the show
In Cerritos, a sunlit pocket of Southern California, Irvine walked into the Off Street Cafe and found a gloomy room co owned by Robin and Rose, an ex mother in law and daughter in law still running the place together. The atmosphere, more than the cooking, dragged everything down. His crew fixed ceramic plates across the walls and reworked the space into something warmer and livelier, then updated a menu that had gone stale. All of it landed within the two day turnaround and small budget the program is known for. The lighter, friendlier cafe that emerged clearly suited its regulars: Off Street Cafe went on to become one of the show's genuine long haul survivors, a family operation still open past the quarter century mark as of our latest check.
After the cameras left
Off Street Cafe is a genuine survivor. As of our latest verification pass the family-owned Cerritos restaurant, more than twenty-five years old, was still operating from its Artesia Boulevard address, with an unusually deep Yelp presence of over four thousand reviews plus active TripAdvisor and Facebook listings. The series returned for a look in season fifteen in August 2019. Long-term survival on the strength of a mostly cosmetic rescue makes it one of the format's quieter success stories, and we rate the open status high confidence.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.