The Hotel Inspector · S19 E1
Riders Rest
England
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
The short answer
Cafe/trattoria, still run by original owners Mimmo and Michelle, trading under an extended name.
What happened on the show
Riders Rest opened series 19 with no surviving synopsis, so the on-screen detail is undocumented. The verifiable frame is a cafe and trattoria at Wellow in Somerset, run by owners Mimmo and Michelle, that called in Alex Polizzi at the start of her nineteenth series in 2024. A small owner-run cafe and Italian eatery is a slightly different proposition from the show's usual hotels, closer to a food-led business than a rooms one. Because the record preserves nothing of the specific problems she diagnosed or the changes she set, the honest account stops at that verifiable outline rather than reconstructing on-screen events, with the outcome best read from where the business later stood. Broadcast in March 2024, it opened Polizzi's nineteenth series, an unusual cafe-and-trattoria case among her hotels.
After the cameras left
Riders Rest is open and trading, still run by its original owners Mimmo and Michelle, under an extended name: House of Porchetta, the Riders Rest Cafe and Trattoria, at Wellow in Somerset. Since Riders Rest persists as a literal part of the current name, this is treated as continuation rather than a rename, and the official site is live, so the open status sits at high confidence. The Somerset cafe and trattoria Polizzi visited to open her nineteenth series appears to have kept going comfortably under its founders, leaning into its porchetta and home-cooking identity.
Location
England
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Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.