restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 4, Episode 9 · Aired September 19, 2012
Michele's
Corry, Pennsylvania
No longer open. It has closed.
What happened after
MapQuest listing marked CLOSED; owners Andrew and Michele Sventek had purchased the restaurant at auction with no prior restaurant experience
What happened on the show
Michele's in Corry became Irvine's fourth-season project, run by Andrew and Michele Sventek, on Route 6. The durable record holds few specifics of the Michele's visit, and Wikipedia gives this Corry episode no summary. So at Michele's came the usual pass: a taste of the food, a look through the Corry kitchen, a talk with the Sventeks, and a swift two-day redesign of the Corry dining room. No fabricated Michele's scene fills the record's gaps, and Corry sources offer nothing concrete to build on. Honest thinness beats a manufactured recap, so for Michele's in Corry we hold to what the record supports. The Sventeks had bought the place at auction with no experience, a detail that foreshadows the closing the record later confirms.
After the cameras left
Michele's is closed, per a business listing that marks the Corry restaurant as such, though no specific closing date surfaced. A search of the usual coverage turned up nothing more, so the closure rests on that single directory tag; we hold it at medium confidence, noting that such closed tags have proven reliable elsewhere in this batch. Owners who bought a restaurant at auction without experience could not turn the rescue into a lasting business, and the Route 6 location eventually went dark.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.