restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 10 · Aired January 1, 2014
Heather's Country Kitchen
Plains, Montana
No longer open. It has closed.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 10 · January 1, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Clueless in the Country"
What happened after
Restaurant Guru direct-fetch confirms 'permanently closed,' corroborated by an independent Google review stating 'restaurant is now closed.'
What happened on the show
Heather's Country Kitchen in Plains, Montana got its seventh season visit under the series formula, a two day turnaround bankrolled on the network's tight remodeling budget. Because Wikipedia keeps no synopsis for the episode, the details of what Irvine tasted and changed are not detailed here in place of invention. The ending is documented plainly. Restaurant Guru's direct listing confirms the kitchen is permanently closed, corroborated by an independent Google review stating the restaurant is now shut. For a small town Montana spot, the closure puts it among the many seventh season restaurants whose televised reset could not overcome whatever pressures were already bearing down, the cameras and crew moving on while the underlying business slipped away not long after the reveal.
After the cameras left
Heather's Country Kitchen is permanently closed. A Restaurant Guru page, confirmed by direct fetch, carries a permanently-closed marker, and an independent Google review states outright that the restaurant is now closed, giving us two separate signals rather than one, so this is a high-confidence call. The precise closing date never surfaced, so we assign none, but the Plains spot no longer trades, one more country restaurant the makeover could not hold open past the arc its title foreshadowed.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.
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