restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 6 · Aired November 27, 2013
SEVEN
La Porte, Indiana
The trail goes cold here; we could not verify whether it is still open. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2013.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 6 · November 27, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Unlucky Number Seven"
What happened after
No independently-citable current status found.
What happened on the show
SEVEN in La Porte, Indiana, owned by Chad and Tonya James, drew its seventh season visit under the show's usual approach, a two day overhaul funded on the network's capped renovation spend. Wikipedia carries no summary, so what Irvine found and fixed inside is not detailed here. The restaurant's current status is genuinely mixed and unresolved. A lead pointing to a September 2014 closure comes only through a tracker we do not cite, yet a Chamber of Commerce directory still lists a Seven LLC at the State Street address, an ambiguous signal rather than a confirmation. A Restaurant Guru slug guess failed and local archive searches were inconclusive. With nothing citable settling the question, we treat SEVEN as unresolved and mark it for a later, targeted re-check.
After the cameras left
After the cameras left, SEVEN's trail goes cold. Owners Chad and Tonya James were said to have announced a shutdown on social media around September 2014, yet that account traces only to a source we will not cite, and a local business directory still carried a Seven LLC at the State Street address afterward, an ambiguous signal at best. Whether the doors are open or shut today, we cannot independently confirm. The one point we stand behind is that the restaurant was trading when its 2013 episode aired; its present status stays unverified until a cleaner source turns up.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.