Restaurant: Impossible · S8 E2
Tootie's Texas BBQ
Cathedral City, California
It closed and is no longer operating.
The short answer
GAYOT directory explicitly labels the listing 'THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED.'
What happened on the show
Tootie's Texas BBQ in Cathedral City, California drew its eighth season turn on the series, with Irvine bringing the show's compressed two day reset and lean remodeling fund to a struggling barbecue operation. Because Wikipedia preserves no synopsis, the on camera details of the visit are not thorough here in place of guesswork. The current status is a closure, established by the GAYOT dining directory, which labels the listing plainly as closed. A separate tracker claim dating the shutdown to May 2015 was seen but not used, since the site keeps such sources off the record and the directory tag stands on its own. Tootie's joins the eighth season entries whose televised reset did not carry, a desert barbecue spot that did not make the long haul past its episode.
After the cameras left
Tootie's Texas BBQ has closed. A GAYOT directory listing states outright that the restaurant is closed, which anchors the status. Since the exact permalink was not retained and no closing date came through cleanly, we rate this a medium call. The Cathedral City barbecue spot is gone; absent a dated news account we assign neither month nor year, but the directory's flat closed designation is enough to place it among this batch's shuttered rooms rather than its survivors.
Location
Cathedral City, California
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Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.