Restaurant: Impossible · S3 E12
Pollard's Bar-B-Que
Memphis, Tennessee
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
The short answer
official site live; Yelp shows recent 2026 reviews and current hours ("Open Now")
What happened on the show
Pollard's Bar-B-Que, a Memphis barbecue institution on Elvis Presley Boulevard, took its turn on the series in season three, with Irvine working the standard two day, small budget formula to reset a struggling operation. The episode has no preserved synopsis on Wikipedia, so the particulars of the visit are not pieced together here. The outcome is the headline worth keeping: Pollard's did not just endure the makeover, it is still smoking meat today. Its official site is live, and recent 2026 reviews show current hours and an open kitchen, placing it firmly among the show's durable successes. In a catalog thick with quick closures, a barbecue joint that carried its televised reset all the way to the present is exactly the kind of survivor a viewer hopes to find still standing.
After the cameras left
Pollard's is still smoking. The Memphis barbecue restaurant on Elvis Presley Boulevard maintains a live official site, and its Yelp listing shows recent 2026 reviews and current hours marked open. Fresh reviews plus a maintained website put the open status at high confidence. It belongs to the group of Restaurant: Impossible businesses that turned the rescue into lasting operation, a barbecue joint still serving well over a decade after Irvine's visit.
Location
S3E12. addr: 4560 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis TN 38116
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Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.