restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 8, Episode 1 · Aired March 5, 2014
Mill Creek BBQ
Redlands, California
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today. It trades today as Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers.
On the show
Season 8, Episode 1 · March 5, 2014 · restaurant
episode title: "Up in Smoke"
What happened after
Actively operating under a slightly updated name, Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers; 4.8/5 rating with 97 reviews per a Restaurant Guru snapshot.
What happened on the show
Mill Creek BBQ in Redlands, California opened the show's eighth season, Irvine applying his two day rescue on the network's deliberately small makeover budget. Wikipedia records no summary, so the specifics of the barbecue joint's overhaul are left off the account rather than invented. The restaurant is still going, now under the slightly expanded name Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers, with a Restaurant Guru snapshot showing a strong 4.8 rating. A direct fetch to confirm live status broke down amid a search outage, so we mark it open at medium confidence rather than high, honest about the gap. Even with that caveat, a barbecue spot carrying a fresh name and a high rating years past its episode sits comfortably among the eighth season's ongoing successes.
After the cameras left
Mill Creek BBQ appears to be open, now trading under a lightly updated name, Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers. A Restaurant Guru snapshot showed a strong 4.8 rating across roughly ninety-seven reviews, consistent with a live, well-liked spot. Because that confirming page arrived during a service outage, this is a tentative read. the best read is that the Redlands barbecue restaurant survived under a slightly revised banner at the same Orange Tree Lane address, though we stop short of a firmer claim.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.