restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 3, Episode 7 · Aired April 25, 2012
Pelican Grill
Seabrook, Texas
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
official site live (breakfast/lunch spot), active Yelp (4.0 stars, 227 reviews)
What happened on the show
During the third season Robert Irvine reached Pelican Grill, a breakfast-and-lunch spot in Seabrook, under John and Laura Walker, on NASA Parkway. The Wikipedia episode list gives Pelican Grill no plot summary, and no scene-level account of the Seabrook hour endures. We describe the Pelican Grill machinery, not the moments: a taste of the morning menu, a look at the Seabrook kitchen, a hard talk with the Walkers, and a two-day redesign of the Seabrook room. Rather than fabricate a Pelican Grill scene, we admit the Seabrook record kept no dish, quote, or design detail. We would rather report Pelican Grill thin than dress its Seabrook hour in details no source ever kept. For a small family breakfast house, survival is the headline, and Pelican Grill kept serving Seabrook well past its television rescue.
After the cameras left
Pelican Grill is still open. The Seabrook breakfast-and-lunch restaurant maintains a live official site and carries an active Yelp presence with a 4.0-star average across 227 reviews. That combination of a current website and ongoing reviews puts its open status at high confidence. Owned by John and Laura Walker, it belongs to the cohort of Restaurant: Impossible businesses that took the rescue and kept going, rather than the more common list of closures that followed the series through its early seasons.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.