restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 18, Episode 2 · Aired January 14, 2021
The Emporium
Hawk Springs, Wyoming
Yes. This one is still open.
On the show
Season 18, Episode 2 · January 14, 2021 · restaurant
episode title: "Destination, Hawk Springs"; business name/location manually read from TVmaze episode synopsis (Wikipedia list has no structured data for this season)
What happened after
Rustic-decor restaurant on US-85; Facebook 4.8/5 (209 reviews), Yelp 4.4-4.5/5, MenuPix 4.3/5, all current per snippet.
What happened on the show
To reach The Emporium, Irvine had to venture out to Hawk Springs, a tiny Wyoming town where owner Dennis was struggling both to lead his staff and to bring customers through the door. The added pressure in the episode was personal: his daughter Dillon was ready to walk away from the business for good unless Irvine could get her father to change his ways. Set against that, the whole effort pointed at making Dennis a leader worth staying for, the food, the books and the tired room each getting attention inside the format's two-day frame. The teaser trades in that leadership gap and the risk of losing his daughter and no particular plates, so the account settles on a remote destination restaurant whose survival hinged on whether one stubborn owner could learn to run it differently.
After the cameras left
The Emporium is still there on the highway. The rustic roadside restaurant at 225 US Highway 85 carries a 4.8 out of 5 across 209 Facebook reviews, with Yelp and MenuPix ratings in the same range, all reading as current. The evidence comes through directory snippets rather than a direct site fetch, so on those directory snippets we call it open at medium confidence, most recent check.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.