restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 3, Episode 5 · Aired March 7, 2012
Woody's Tupelo Steakhouse
Tupelo, Mississippi
This one survived. It remains in business.
What happened after
official site live; OpenTable (855 reviews, 4.7 stars) and Yelp ("Updated July 2026") both show current active listings
What happened on the show
Robert Irvine took on Woody's Tupelo Steakhouse, a steakhouse in Tupelo, during the third season, on North Gloster. What aired at Woody's Tupelo Steakhouse was never archived in Tupelo in any detail, and Wikipedia keeps no summary of the hour. We describe the Woody's Tupelo Steakhouse machinery, not the moments: a taste of the beef, a look at the Tupelo kitchen, a hard talk with the owners, and a two-day redesign of the Tupelo room. We will not dress the Woody's Tupelo Steakhouse hour in invented dishes, since Tupelo sources documented none of them. The honest core of Woody's Tupelo Steakhouse is its Tupelo setting and the fixed rescue, not any invented scene. With Woody's the meaningful story is staying power: strong current OpenTable and Yelp listings, not the details of a single televised hour.
After the cameras left
Woody's is thriving. The Tupelo steakhouse has a live official site, and both OpenTable, with 855 reviews and a 4.7-star average, and Yelp, updated as recently as July 2026, show current active listings. That combination of a maintained website and fresh third-party reviews puts its open status at high confidence. It stands among the clearer Restaurant: Impossible success stories, a steakhouse that took the rescue and turned it into more than a decade of continued operation on North Gloster.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.