restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 16, Episode 7 · Aired February 6, 2020
Garrett's Mill Brewing Co.
Garrettsville, Ohio
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
On the show
Season 16, Episode 7 · February 6, 2020 · restaurant
episode title: "Saving a Piece of History"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Brewery/steakhouse in a historic 200-year-old mill building, 'Open Now' with full weekly hours listed; 2024-2025-dated Yelp reviews confirm active operation.
What happened on the show
Inside a 200-year-old mill in Garrettsville sat a restaurant and brewery running out of time. Shelli, who owned Garrett's Mill Brewing Co., was in over her head, her husband had gone back to driving a truck just to keep the doors open, and a half-million-dollar payment was coming due on the historic building. Irvine framed the visit as saving a literal piece of history, the mill itself being the thing worth rescuing as much as the business inside it. His forty-eight hours ran the familiar course: put the food to the test, read the operation for where the money was going, and then set his crew loose on the dining room, working within the show's fixed renovation allowance rather than the kind of money a mill restoration would really want. The teaser hangs the drama on that looming payment and Shelli being stretched too thin, so the honest telling holds there, a family betting a historic property they could barely staff on a rescue arriving just months before the deadline.
After the cameras left
The bet paid off, at least as of our latest verification pass. Garrett's Mill Brewing Co. is still operating as a brewery and steakhouse in the same 200-year-old mill on Main Street, listed as open with a full weekly schedule, and Yelp reviews dated across 2024 and 2025 confirm an active room. The historic building Irvine was really trying to save is still doing the job it was rescued for.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.