restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 17, Episode 4 · Aired June 4, 2020
T. Phillip's Alehouse and Grill
Glendora, California
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 17, Episode 4 · June 4, 2020 · restaurant
episode title: "Back on Track in Glendora"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Neighborhood restaurant/bar (owner Jennifer Kerzey) with ~40 beers on tap; official site (tphillipsalehouse.com) found, OpenTable 5/5 (43 reviews), Facebook activity from March 2022 confirming ongoing operation (Facebook 3.9/5, 1000+ reviews).
What happened on the show
What should have been a neighborhood alehouse looked more like a dive bar when Irvine reached T. Phillip's in Glendora. The owner, Jen, could not stand up for herself, and the episode makes clear that everyone around her walked all over her as a result, so the rescue was as much about giving her a spine as giving the restaurant a facelift. His time there aimed at building Jen and the room back up together, tasting what the kitchen sent out, tracing how the place had slid, and letting the design crew rework the space on the show's slim allowance. The teaser centers on Jen being unable to hold her own and offers no dishes or reveal, so we anchor it on an owner whose lack of authority had let a real restaurant slide into dive-bar territory.
After the cameras left
T. Phillip's, home to something like forty beers on tap and still run by Jennifer Kerzey, appears to have stuck. Its official site is live, OpenTable shows a perfect 5 across 43 reviews, and Facebook activity from March 2022 confirms ongoing operation from 180 N Glendora Avenue. The freshest dated evidence is that 2022 social post, so we mark it open, medium confidence, for that last-confirmed window and not the current year.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.