restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 20, Episode 1 · Aired August 26, 2021
From Across the Pond
Colleyville, Texas
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 20, Episode 1 · August 26, 2021 · restaurant
episode title: "Extreme British Makeover"; business name/location auto-extracted from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season) | P2 SPINE-FIX: was garbled 'From Across the Pond,'
What happened after
Mashed.com: "The restaurant is still open with the decor and menu items the show helped them develop." Won "Best All-Round Restaurant" from The Dallas Morning News in 2021.
What happened on the show
A British expat had run out of hope over the restaurant he had spent fifteen years failing to make work. Lee owned From Across the Pond in Colleyville, Texas, and Irvine, his fellow countryman, made this a very personal two-day transformation, trying to convince Lee he was capable of turning around a decade and a half of struggle. He tasted the British menu, went through the operation, and rebuilt the room, closing on a reopening night to prove it out, the whole rescue folded into two personal days. Because the teaser centers on Lee's lost confidence and that long run of failure, not the plates, what remains is a British restaurant in Texas whose survival hinged on its owner believing it could finally succeed.
After the cameras left
From Across the Pond made it. Mashed.com reports the restaurant is still open, keeping the decor and menu items the show helped develop, and it won Best All-Round Restaurant from The Dallas Morning News in 2021. On that secondary reporting alone, we log it open at medium confidence. For a British expat who had spent fifteen years failing, an award the same year and a menu still built on Irvine's changes make this one of the format's cleaner wins.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.