restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 5, Episode 4 · Aired December 19, 2012
Rising Sun Bistro
Kalispell, Montana
We could not confirm its current status.
What happened after
Facebook page (25 2nd Ave W, Kalispell) still exists with 986 followers and a 3.7-star rating, which is inconsistent with a a competitor tracker claim (banned source, not cited) that it closed.
What happened on the show
Rising Sun Bistro in Kalispell, Montana landed a fifth season episode, with Irvine working the standard 48 hour clock and capped budget the program is built on. The Wikipedia list preserves no synopsis, so the on air specifics of the rescue are not detailed here. Its current status is one we hold as genuinely uncertain. The bistro's Facebook page still exists with 986 followers and a 3.7 star rating, signals that sit awkwardly against an unverified claim from a banned tracker that it had closed. We could not confirm recent activity on that page directly, and follow up checks came back empty during an outage. On balance the live looking page leans toward open, but without a citable, dated confirmation we leave Rising Sun flagged for a later re-check rather than asserting either way.
After the cameras left
The picture for Rising Sun leans toward still-running, but we cannot certify it. A Kalispell Facebook page for the bistro stays up with 986 followers and a 3.7-star rating, which contradicts an uncited tracker's closure claim. We could not verify that the page is recently active, since our fetch surfaced only its title with no post dates, and follow-up checks failed in a search outage. Weighing that, we log the Second Avenue West bistro as unverifiable and hold it for a later pass rather than call it open on incomplete evidence.
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