restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 20, Episode 10 · Aired March 10, 2022
Rest Haven
Clarksdale, Miss
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 20, Episode 10 · March 10, 2022 · restaurant
episode title: "Holding on to the Past"; business name/location auto-extracted from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Mashed.com: "Thus far, Rest Haven has managed to remain open, and has a Facebook page with a couple thousand followers." 4.0 rating on Tripadvisor.
What happened on the show
A mother's refusal to change was strangling both her father's restaurant and her son's future at Rest Haven in Clarksdale. Paula ruled the kitchen of the family's Lebanese restaurant and would not loosen her grip, and the episode set Irvine the task of teaching her to trust her son and her staff before her stubbornness destroyed the legacy and the family with it. He tasted the Lebanese menu and read the operation, then reworked the room and staged a reopening, the whole rescue turning on whether Paula would ease her grip. Because the teaser centers on her control and the generational stakes, with no dish-by-dish account, what stands is a longtime Lebanese kitchen whose survival turned on its matriarch learning to share the room.
After the cameras left
Rest Haven has managed to hang on. Per Mashed.com the restaurant remained open with a Facebook page a couple thousand followers strong and a 4.0 rating on TripAdvisor. We log it open at medium confidence, since only the secondary source speaks to it. For a matriarch the episode showed refusing to loosen her grip, keeping the Lebanese restaurant open and her son's inheritance intact is the legacy the visit was trying to protect.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.