Spicy Bar & Grill

What happened after

Vietnamese restaurant closed roughly two months after its TV episode aired.

Closure date on record: 2014-11

What happened on the show

A Vietnamese spot inside the Eden Center in Falls Church, Virginia, Spicy Bar & Grill drew its ninth season turn under the show's forty eight hour formula, Irvine working the network's tight refit fund to sharpen a struggling kitchen. The Wikipedia record preserves no synopsis for the Spicy Bar episode, so the particular dishes and problems Irvine confronted are not detailed on this page. The restaurant did not last long past its moment on television. A secondary account, capped here at medium confidence, reports that less than two months after the broadcast, in November 2014, the grill closed its doors for good, noting the name also appeared as Spice Bar and Grill. Spicy joins the ninth season entries whose fresh televised start faded within a season rather than holding.

After the cameras left

The Spicy Bar & Grill closed in November 2014, less than two months after its episode aired. A lifestyle and entertainment source, treated as secondary rather than hard news, states that the restaurant, which it spells as Spice Bar and Grill, shut its doors for good that November. Because the source is a blog rather than a news outlet, we rate this a medium call. The Eden Center Vietnamese spot did not survive its own post-broadcast season, closing within weeks of the exposure the show was meant to help it convert.