restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 6, Episode 2 · Aired April 21, 2013
Old World Italian Restaurant
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
It has since closed.
On the show
Season 6, Episode 2 · April 21, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Father Knows Worst"
What happened after
MapQuest lists it CLOSED; last visible Facebook activity is from 2013.
What happened on the show
The sixth season brought Irvine to Old World Italian Restaurant, a Italian restaurant in Murrells Inlet, run by George and Teresa Hayek, on Highway 17. The durable record holds few specifics of the Old World Italian Restaurant visit, and Wikipedia gives this Murrells Inlet episode no summary. So at Old World Italian Restaurant came the usual pass: a taste of the Italian cooking, a look through the Murrells Inlet kitchen, a talk with the Hayeks, and a swift two-day redesign of the Murrells Inlet dining room. We leave the Old World Italian Restaurant specifics blank rather than guess, since Murrells Inlet coverage preserved no dish or decor detail. We would rather report Old World Italian Restaurant thin than dress its Murrells Inlet hour in details no source ever kept. The Hayeks and the father-and-family theme in that episode title are the concrete anchors for this Murrells Inlet entry.
After the cameras left
Old World Italian is closed, per a business listing that tags it as such, with its last visible Facebook activity dating to 2013 and no specific closing date on record. On the strength of that single directory tag, plus the long-stale social presence, we hold the closure at medium confidence. George and Teresa Hayek's Murrells Inlet Italian restaurant appears to have gone dark not long after the episode, though the exact timing is not documented in the sources we could cite.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.