Pimanyoli's Sidewalk Cafe and Catering

What happened after

Multiple local news outlets confirm permanent closure announced Jan 4-5, 2023: WBRZ ("Pimanyoli's Smokehouse on Airline Highway has closed its doors"), WAFB, and The Advocate ("Pimanyoli's Sidewalk Cafe & Catering, 14241 Airline Highway, has permanently closed"). Owner Yolanda "Yoli" Perrilloux cited inflation/economic conditions.

Closure date on record: 2023-01

What happened on the show

The documented details of the visit itself are sparse, but the business is clear enough. Pimanyoli's Sidewalk Cafe and Catering was a Baton Rouge smokehouse run by Yolanda Perrilloux, known locally as Yoli, and it turned up in season 22 under the title Missing Pepper in Baton Rouge. The Wikipedia list preserves no fuller synopsis, so we lean only on the show's standard two-day, tight-budget makeover premise and add nothing beyond it. The distinctive, verifiable fact here is the owner and the concept, Yoli's Airline Highway smokehouse, a real Baton Rouge institution that this episode dropped in on. Smoked meats and a devoted local following were the raw material any turnaround would have leaned on, though how it played out on screen the record does not preserve.

After the cameras left

Pimanyoli's has since closed for good. Multiple local outlets, including WBRZ, WAFB and The Advocate, confirmed the permanent closure announced in early January 2023, with owner Yolanda Perrilloux citing inflation and economic conditions. The smokehouse at 14241 Airline Highway shut roughly four months after the episode's original airing. On several independent local-news confirmations, we record it as closed as of January 2023 at high confidence.