restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 9 · Aired December 18, 2013
Goombazz Big City Eatzz
Rock Island, Illinois
We could not confirm its current status.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 9 · December 18, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Goombazz Gone Wild"
What happened after
No independently-citable current status found.
What happened on the show
Goombazz Big City Eatzz in Rock Island, Illinois, run by Brenda Brewer and Sal Cracco, landed a seventh season episode on the series usual terms, two days and a remodeling fund kept deliberately small. Wikipedia holds no summary, so the on air particulars are left unstated rather than invented. The restaurant's status lands in the unresolved column. A lead suggesting it closed around February 2014, based on a reported sign shortly after the December episode aired, comes only through banned trackers the site does not cite, and a Restaurant Guru lookup stalled during a search infrastructure outage. With no independently citable evidence to lean on, we mark Goombazz unconfirmed and set aside it for a later re-check instead of asserting an outcome the record cannot back.
After the cameras left
What became of Goombazz after the December 2013 broadcast is not something we can verify. A reported sign saying the place was closed on a Tuesday, hinting at a shutdown near early 2014, comes only from sources beneath our citation standard, and a database lookup failed during a service outage. So the restaurant's fate stays beyond independent confirmation. The last dependable marker is the episode itself, and we hold it for a cleaner pass.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.
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