restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 11, Episode 2 · Aired March 25, 2015
Valentino's and Italian Bistro
Summerville, South Carolina
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
On the show
Season 11, Episode 2 · March 25, 2015 · restaurant
episode title: "Double Trouble"
What happened after
Spine row covers two sister restaurants from one special episode (father-and-son owners, ~6 miles apart); Italian Bistro confirmed open, Valentino's status unverified.
What happened on the show
Double Trouble was no ordinary episode: Robert Irvine was asked to transform two restaurants at once, Valentino's and Italian Bistro, run by a father and son whose Summerville, South Carolina establishments sat roughly six miles apart. That dual assignment shapes everything about the visit. Across the standard two-day framework, Irvine had to split his attention between two Italian kitchens and two dysfunctions rather than one, tasting each menu, inspecting each kitchen, and confronting a family divided across two rooms, with his design and build team reworking both dining spaces before reopening services. The father-and-son structure and the two-restaurant premise are the firm, documented points here; because the granular beats were spread across two sites and not preserved citably in detail, we describe the unusual setup plainly rather than manufacture a single tidy narrative.
After the cameras left
The two halves of this episode landed in different places, and we report them honestly. The Italian Bistro at 1605 Central Avenue in Summerville is confirmed open, with active hours and ordering verified by direct load. The Valentino's half, tied to a Valentino's Trattoria on Old Trolley Road, carries no independent status signal beyond undated menu directories, so we cannot confirm whether it is open or closed. As of our latest verification pass, then, one sister restaurant is confirmed operating and the other is unverified, and we flag that this single spine row may ultimately need splitting into two entities.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.