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Restaurant: Impossible · Season 2, Episode 1 · Aired July 6, 2011

Dodge City

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

OPEN

Yes. This one is still open. It trades today as Dodge City Steakhouse.

On the show

Season 2, Episode 1 · July 6, 2011 · restaurant

revisited as "Dodge City Steakhouse" in S15E2 (2019-07-27)

What happened after

official site live; family-owned steakhouse since 1980, active Yelp/TripAdvisor listings, now operating as "Dodge City Steakhouse" (spine notes revisit S15E2 2019-07-27)

What happened on the show

Thirty years in, Dodge City in Harrisburg had settled into a western theme its owner refused to let anyone modernize, and that stubbornness was the real obstacle Irvine had to move. The food and the room both felt frozen in an earlier decade. Much of the episode became a negotiation, Irvine coaxing a change resistant operator into accepting updates to the menu and a freshening of the decor rather than gutting the identity the family had built. He kept the work within the standard 48 hour window and the show's tight refit fund. The compromise held: Dodge City did not just survive the makeover but grew into a fixture, later reintroduced as Dodge City Steakhouse and confirmed still serving as of our most recent verification pass, a rarer outcome than the show's drama usually suggests.

After the cameras left

Dodge City endures. The family-owned Harrisburg steakhouse, in business since 1980, is still operating, now trading as Dodge City Steakhouse with active Yelp and TripAdvisor listings and a live official site. The show thought enough of it to come back, revisiting the restaurant in season fifteen in July 2019. Survival for a place whose owner resisted the makeover so hard makes it one of the more satisfying outcomes in its class, and we rate the open status high confidence.

Sources

Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.

What is there now

Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.

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