restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 9, Episode 13 · Aired November 3, 2014
Papa C's Eastside Cafe
Fairport, New York
Its status today is unclear. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2014.
On the show
Season 9, Episode 13 · November 3, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Recipe for Disaster"
What happened after
We have not been able to confirm what happened to this business since the episode aired. If you know its current status, we would like to hear from you.
What happened on the show
Papa C's Eastside Cafe, on Macedon Center Road in Fairport, New York, took its ninth season slot as one more neighborhood cafe hoping for an Irvine turnaround. The show gave Papa C's its usual two day turnaround on a makeover budget the network keeps small, with the standard pattern of a taste, a candid look, and a fresh open. Because the Wikipedia entry omits the episode, the exact troubles Irvine met at Papa C's are left unstated here rather than guessed at. The cafe's current status is genuinely unresolved: only undated directory listings surfaced during verification, none carrying a closure or a fresh open signal. With nothing citable to settle it, Papa C's stays unverified in our record and flag it for a fresh look later.
After the cameras left
The current status of Papa C's Eastside Cafe is unverified. No open or closed signal surfaced for the Fairport cafe, only undated directory listings that establish neither state. We are being explicit rather than guessing: nothing citable confirms whether Papa C's still trades today. The last dependable marker is the episode itself, and we leave it for re-verification.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.