TV Restaurants

TV Restaurants in Illinois

220 restaurants and bars in Illinois have been featured on Bar Rescue, Best Thing I Ever Ate, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Food Paradise, Hotel Impossible, Kitchen Nightmares, Mystery Diners, Man v. Food, and Restaurant: Impossible. 132 open · 66 closed.

Map of TV restaurants in Illinois

Interactive map — loads when it scrolls into view.

Everything on this map is also in the list below.

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  • Open
  • Closed
  • Renamed / relocated / new ownership
  • Unknown
  • Numbered circles are clusters — click to zoom in

5 of 220 Illinois records have no confirmed coordinates yet and are listed below but not on the map.

Every tracked location in Illinois

Shows filmed in Illinois

How to use this map

Each pin is one restaurant or bar in Illinois that appeared on a show we track. Pin colour is the status we have on file — open, closed, changed, or unknown — and clicking a pin opens its dated status and a link to the full page. Where pins sit close together they collapse into a numbered cluster; click it to zoom in until the individual pins separate.

The two dropdowns above the map filter the pins and the list below in the same move, so you can narrow to, say, closed locations from one show without losing your place. The list is the accessible version of the map: it carries the same 220 records in the same order, is fully keyboard-navigable, and "Show on map" on any card flies the map to that pin.

Status is never a live feed. Each card shows the date we last checked it — for Illinois that is September 7, 2026 on the most recently reviewed record — and the source page it rests on. Confirm with the business before you drive anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

How many TV-featured restaurants in Illinois are still open?

132 of the 220 Illinois records we track are recorded open, 60% of the state's total, each with its own dated source. 66 are recorded closed.

What TV shows have featured restaurants in Illinois?

Bar Rescue, Best Thing I Ever Ate, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Food Paradise, Hotel Impossible, Kitchen Nightmares, Mystery Diners, Man v. Food, and Restaurant: Impossible.

Something on this page is wrong. What now?

Tell us what you're seeing and where you saw it. If we can't reach a confident answer within about a week, we lower the page's confidence label rather than leave a disputed claim standing.