restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 16, Episode 12 · Aired March 12, 2020
Taverna Trela
Delray Beach, Florida
No longer open. It has closed in 2020.
On the show
Season 16, Episode 12 · March 12, 2020 · restaurant
episode title: "Greek Tragedy"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Greek restaurant appears closed; a Yelp-sourced snippet states 'Taverna Trela is closed. They appear to have closed in 2020/21.'
Closure date on record: 2020
What happened on the show
Grief, not incompetence, had hollowed out Taverna Trela. Bobby, who owned the family-run Greek restaurant in Delray Beach, had let the place slide after losing his parents, and Irvine's task was less about rescuing a broken kitchen than about pulling an owner back into a business he had emotionally checked out of before the flagging clientele finished it off. The visit bent toward reengaging that absent owner more than fixing recipes, though the food and the room still got their two-day working-over on the slim sum the format gives. The record centers on his personal absence and preserves no plates or reveal, so what survives is the picture of a Greek spot at 4801 Linton Boulevard drifting because the man running it had stopped showing up for it.
After the cameras left
Taverna Trela appears not to have survived long after the visit. A Yelp-sourced snippet states the restaurant is closed and places the closing around 2020 or 2021, but a direct fetch of the listing was blocked this session, the year is approximate, and no independent second source confirmed it. We record it as closed at low confidence, a last-confirmed rather than firmly dated status, and flag it as a candidate for re-verification.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.