restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 18, Episode 5 · Aired February 4, 2021
Park Vue Soul Food Bar and Restaurant
Buffalo, New York
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 18, Episode 5 · February 4, 2021 · restaurant
episode title: "Community Hub in Chaos"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Family-owned East Side soul food restaurant, opened Autumn 2019; official site (parkvuesoulfood.com), 2025-dated Yelp review noting it 'made it through the COVID shut-down,' 11.2K Facebook followers.
What happened on the show
On the south side of Buffalo, a mother and daughter were pouring themselves into a soul-food restaurant they had no idea how to run. Schenita and Harrita opened Park Vue to serve their neighborhood, and their hearts were plainly in it, but the episode is candid that they lacked the operating experience to keep the dream alive, so Irvine's job was to hand them the skills the passion could not supply. Turning good intentions into a working business was the whole point, and the tasting, the read on how the young operation ran, and a fast remake of the room all served it, on the show's tight allowance. The teaser centers on that inexperience and the community mission, not the plates, so the story that survives is two first-time owners trying to help their neighborhood before the numbers helped themselves to the restaurant.
After the cameras left
Park Vue made it, and then some. The family-owned East Side soul-food restaurant at 34 S Crossman Avenue, opened in autumn 2019, runs an official site, a 2025 Yelp review noting it survived the COVID shutdown, and a Facebook following past 11,000. Confirmed operating as of 2025, a clear survival for a business that started with more heart than know-how.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.