restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 19, Episode 10 · Aired July 22, 2021
Ship Inn, a fine dining restaurant
Exton, Penn
It closed and is no longer operating. The site is now home to VK Brewing Co. & Eatery.
On the show
Season 19, Episode 10 · July 22, 2021 · restaurant
episode title: "The Sinking Ship Inn"; business name/location auto-extracted from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
The historic 1796 Ship Inn building in Exton, PA (the fine-dining restaurant featured in "The Sinking Ship Inn") no longer operates as Ship Inn. The building is now occupied by VK Brewing Co. & Eatery, a veteran-owned brewery/restaurant.
What happened on the show
A fine-dining restaurant inside a 1796 building was going down under its owner's overbearing management and nearly nine hundred thousand dollars of debt. Ship Inn in Exton had veered badly off course, and Irvine gave himself 48 hours to overcome Michael's resistance to change and repair the fractured relationships around him before the debt finished the historic place off. Prying loose an owner too rigid to save himself was the real work, and the gutted dining room answered to that alone. Since the teaser centers on Michael's management style and the $895,000 hole, with no plated detail, what remains is a storied 1796 fine-dining room sinking under both its debt and the man refusing to steer it differently, the historic building the real prize and the balance sheet the likeliest way to lose it.
After the cameras left
Ship Inn no longer operates under that name. The historic 1796 building at 693 E Lincoln Highway is now home to VK Brewing Co. and Eatery, a veteran-owned brewery and restaurant whose own site confirms it occupies the former Ship Inn. VK Brewing was verified live via direct fetch. The exact date the original Ship Inn closed or sold could not be pinned down, so we record the business as closed and succeeded by VK Brewing at medium confidence.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.