restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 22, Episode 15 · Aired April 6, 2023
Dutch Treat
Franconia, New Hampshire
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 22, Episode 15 · April 6, 2023 · restaurant
episode title: "Trick or Treat"
What happened after
Active Yelp (3.5/5, 89 reviews) and Facebook (4/5, 285 reviews) listings; described as "Franconia's favorite local watering hole for over fifty years."
What happened on the show
The public record here is thin, so we set down only what is documented. Dutch Treat is a longtime watering hole in Franconia, New Hampshire, billed as the town's favorite for more than fifty years, and season 22 stopped by for the episode Trick or Treat. The Wikipedia list carries no synopsis, so the honest frame is the series' standard two-day, small-budget overhaul premise and no more. The concrete, verifiable fact is the tenure, a small-town New Hampshire bar that had already been Franconia's local watering hole for half a century, the sort of long-tenured place whose loyal base is both its cushion and its resistance to change. What the visit turned up inside those fifty years stays off the record, so we hold to the setting alone.
After the cameras left
Dutch Treat is still open. Active Yelp and Facebook listings, with ratings around 3.5 to 4.0 and its own claim to more than fifty years as Franconia's favorite local watering hole, confirm the business at 317 Main Street. On those listings we treat it as open, at medium confidence, current at last check. For a small-town New Hampshire bar already past fifty years when the cameras came, simply staying Franconia's local watering hole is exactly the continuity the visit set out to protect.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.