restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 8 · Aired December 8, 2013
LBI Pancake House / Ship Bottom Volunteer Fire Department
Ship Bottom, New Jersey
Yes. This one is still open.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 8 · December 8, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Holiday: Impossible 2"
What happened after
Actively operating breakfast restaurant; official website live with current hours, Facebook 3.2K followers, reviews through 2025-2026.
What happened on the show
This was a Holiday: Impossible special, so the usual rules bent. Instead of two days and ten thousand dollars, Robert Irvine and his crew got three days and fifty thousand to revive two Hurricane Sandy casualties in Ship Bottom, New Jersey at once: the LBI Pancake House and the town's volunteer fire department. The doubled scope brought a second designer, with Lynn Kegan taking the pancake house and Cheryl Torrenueva handling the fire house, splitting the team across both jobs. For the breakfast restaurant at 2111 Long Beach Boulevard the mission was storm recovery rather than the show's usual rescue from owner dysfunction, and the reveal and reopening closed a rebuild that doubled as a gift to a community still digging out from Sandy. The dual-billed entity here is the pancake house half; the fire company is a civic institution, not a business tracked for open-or-closed status.
After the cameras left
The LBI Pancake House is open. As of our latest verification pass it was actively serving at 2111 Long Beach Boulevard, its official website carrying current hours, a Facebook following in the low thousands, and reviews running through 2025 and into 2026. Confirmed operating as of 2026, it ranks among this batch's clearer survivors, a storm-battered breakfast spot that the Holiday: Impossible rebuild helped put back on its feet and that has kept feeding the Long Beach Island crowd in the years since.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.