Restaurant: Impossible · S22 E3
Island Kine Grinds
Nampa, Idaho
It is still up and running.
The short answer
Active Facebook page (3,130 likes) describing itself as "Hawaiian plate lunch style!! Comfort food brought to you from the Island of Hawaii!!"
What happened on the show
This Nampa episode leaves a little more to work with than most of its season. Island Kine Grinds is a Hawaiian plate-lunch restaurant set, notably, inside a converted former Pizza Hut, and the record confirms one concrete on-air change: the place was renamed Aloha Island Grille during production. Beyond that rebrand, the Wikipedia list preserves no full synopsis under the episode's title, Clueless in Idaho, so we will not invent the specifics of what Irvine found. The format is the safe frame here: a two-day sprint of tasting, kitchen inspection and a blunt reckoning with the core problem, followed by a rebuilt room on a small budget and a reopening to close it out. The one distinctive, documented detail worth holding onto is the setting itself, comfort food from the island of Hawaii served out of an old pizza chain building in southern Idaho.
After the cameras left
Island Kine Grinds is still serving Hawaiian comfort food. Its Facebook page, roughly 3,130 likes strong, describes it as Hawaiian plate-lunch style brought from the island of Hawaii, confirming the Nampa business is active at 140 Caldwell Boulevard. One directory lists an alternate address that may be a second location or a listing error, noted for later cleanup. That active page reads open, medium confidence, as of the latest check.
Location
140 Caldwell Blvd, Nampa ID 83651
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Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.