restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 11 · Aired January 15, 2014
Spunky Monkey Bar & Grill
Auburn, Washington
Yes. This one is still open.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 11 · January 15, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Monkey Business"
What happened after
Actively operating; official website shows current hours (daily 10:30am-midnight), nightly karaoke.
What happened on the show
Spunky Monkey Bar & Grill in Auburn, Washington received a seventh season makeover on the show's familiar terms, Irvine handed two days and a purposely small renovation fund to turn a struggling bar and grill around. Wikipedia preserves no summary, so the on camera specifics of the episode are left off the page rather than reconstructed from guesswork. The good news is current and clear. Spunky Monkey is actively operating, its official site listing daily hours from mid morning to midnight along with nightly karaoke, the marks of a going concern rather than a fading one. Among seventh season entries it lands firmly in the survivor column, an Auburn watering hole that took its on air reset all the way to the present, confirmed still open as of our latest verification pass.
After the cameras left
The Spunky Monkey Bar & Grill is open. Its official website lists current hours running daily from mid-morning to midnight, plus nightly karaoke, which reads as a live, working bar rather than a dormant listing. Confirmed operating as of 2026 at the same Auburn address it held for the episode, it counts among the sturdier survivors in this group. A bar that kept its late-night pull and its karaoke calendar going years past the makeover is exactly the durable result the show chases and rarely locks in.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.