restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 5, Episode 6 · Aired January 16, 2013
Windseeker Restaurant
The Dalles, Oregon
Current status unconfirmed after an independent check. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2013.
What happened after
No independently-citable current status found.
What happened on the show
Windseeker Restaurant overlooked the gorge in The Dalles, Oregon when it had its fifth season episode, the visit built on the program's fixed offer of 48 hours and a makeover fund held to five figures. Wikipedia records no summary for the episode, so the particulars of Irvine's work stay off the page here. Windseeker's present status sits in the unresolved column. A Facebook page describing the gorge views still surfaces, but it carries no datable recent posts, and MapQuest, Yelp, and Restaurant Guru lookups all failed during a search infrastructure outage at the time of checking. With nothing citable pointing either way, we log the restaurant as genuinely unconfirmed and queue it for a targeted re-check rather than guess at an outcome the record cannot support.
After the cameras left
Windseeker's fate resists confirmation. A Facebook page for the restaurant is up and touts its gorge views, but no dated posts surfaced to prove recent activity, and every directory lookup collapsed during a search outage. With nothing citable to establish operation or closure, we record the Bargeway Road spot as unverifiable and earmark it for a future check. Our assertion stays limited to the episode and the address; whether the gorge-view room still serves as of 2026 is a question we leave honestly open.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.