restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 16, Episode 2 · Aired January 2, 2020
Rossini's Cucina Italiana
Ridgeland, Mississippi
Current status unconfirmed after an independent check. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2020.
On the show
Season 16, Episode 2 · January 2, 2020 · restaurant
episode title: "Cleaning Up in Mississippi"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
No fetchable/citable evidence URL found despite multiple search attempts; ownership (Lori, inherited 2000) and Facebook activity through mid-2021 confirmed via snippet only, plus an unconfirmed 2024 snippet mentioning the restaurant 'faced various challenges' with no article link surfaced.
What happened on the show
When Irvine reached Rossini's Cucina Italiana in Ridgeland, Mississippi during the sixteenth season, he found the small town Italian restaurant absolutely filthy and, worse, owners Lori and Toni who seemed to have given up on it. Cleaning up Rossini's meant rolling up his sleeves and getting his own hands dirty before any of the usual reset could take hold. Working within the show's set terms of two days and a renovation budget the network keeps small, Irvine had to rekindle an ownership that had lost heart as much as fix the room itself. Where Rossini's stands now is unresolved: ownership and social activity were traceable only through mid 2021 via snippets, with a vague 2024 mention of challenges and no citable article, so we log the restaurant as genuinely unconfirmed pending a cleaner re-check.
After the cameras left
Rossini's Cucina Italiana has a current status we could not confirm. Ownership details, with Lori having inherited the restaurant around 2000, and Facebook activity running through mid-2021 were confirmed only through snippets, and an unconfirmed 2024 mention that the restaurant had faced various challenges surfaced without any linkable article. No evidence URL cleared our load-and-cite bar in either direction. That leaves the Ridgeland restaurant unverified. The last dependable marker is that mid-2021 activity, and we mark it for a dedicated re-check.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.