restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 12, Episode 3 · Aired November 5, 2015
Copper Still Restaurant
Crestwood, Illinois
Status unknown. No reliable current signal turned up. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2015.
On the show
Season 12, Episode 3 · November 5, 2015 · restaurant
episode title: "Ambush: Eyes on the Surprise"
What happened after
We have not been able to confirm what happened to this business since the episode aired. If you know its current status, we would like to hear from you.
What happened on the show
A martini bar and restaurant on South Cicero Avenue in Crestwood, Illinois, the Copper Still had its twelfth season episode hoping Irvine could reset a fading concept. The Copper Still got the show's usual two day turnaround on a renovation budget the network keeps small, the usual rushed push behind an ambush style visit. Because Wikipedia carries no summary for the episode, the specific troubles Irvine confronted are withheld here rather than fabricated. The venue's present status is genuinely murky. The freshest dated signal is a 2019 review noting it was under construction and no longer the martini bar, and a chamber listing now calls it a vodka lounge, neither of which confirms current operation. We hold the Copper Still as unverified, a stale and ambiguous trail flagged for a cleaner re-check.
After the cameras left
The Copper Still's current status is unverified. The most recent dated signal is an April 2019 TripAdvisor review noting the place was under construction and no longer the martini bar it had been, which is both ambiguous and stale, and a chamber listing shows a related vodka-lounge name without a date. We could not confirm whether the Crestwood spot operates today, and we deliberately set aside a same-named venue in a different town to avoid a slug mismatch. The last dependable marker is that 2019 note; beyond it the status stays open pending a cleaner source.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.