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What Happened to Cape Horn Family Restaurant? (Red Lion, PA)

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As of September 2026, Cape Horn Family Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 7, 2026.

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What the source shows: Yelp's business page for Cape Horn Family Restaurant is marked closed; no reopening or successor business was found in any other source checked. The listing's own update date was not visible in research; date shown reflects when the page was checked.

  • Season / episode Season 12, Episode 6
  • Original air date
  • Address 601 Lombard Road, Red Lion, PA 17356

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What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Cape Horn Family Restaurant in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, for the episode "Ambush: Facing Fears," which aired December 3, 2015. Local outlet FlipsidePA covered the visit at the time, reporting that chef Robert Irvine's team completed a fast renovation of the restaurant's dining room and kitchen at its Lombard Road location, and the outlet published a follow-up piece later that same month describing the finished look.

FlipsidePA's original coverage indicated the crew was called in after the owner's husband reached out for help, a detail consistent with the show's typical ambush setup for family-run restaurants. The makeover included new paint, updated furnishings, and menu adjustments intended to modernize a business that had been serving the Red Lion community under the same name for a long stretch of years.

Beyond the 2015 coverage, the most concrete evidence located for this record is Cape Horn's own Yelp business page, which is marked closed. The page was checked as part of this research on September 7, 2026, and showed no indication of a reopening, updated hours, or a successor business operating at the Lombard Road address. No additional outlet, social media account, or news report was found describing when or why the restaurant stopped operating, and a Cape Horn Facebook page located during research did not carry a recent, dated post confirming current status either way.

Because the only available evidence of closure is a single business-directory listing without an independently reported closure date, this record is treated as a single-source, undated closure signal rather than a fully corroborated one. No claim is made here about the specific date the restaurant stopped serving customers, and no legal, financial, or personal information about the ownership was located in sources that named an outlet directly, so none is repeated in this summary.

Overall, available information supports that Cape Horn Family Restaurant received a Restaurant: Impossible renovation in December 2015 and operated for some additional period afterward, but current, independently dated confirmation of its operating status was limited to a single directory listing at the time of this research.

Featured on Restaurant: Impossible

Season / episode
Season 12, Episode 6
Original air date
Episode title
Ambush: Facing Fears
What was featured
kitchen and dining room renovation
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Cape Horn Family Restaurant

Frequently asked questions

Is Cape Horn Family Restaurant still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Cape Horn Family Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 7, 2026.

What happened to Cape Horn Family Restaurant after Restaurant: Impossible?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Cape Horn Family Restaurant in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, for the episode "Ambush: Facing Fears," which aired December 3, 2015. As of September 2026, Cape Horn Family Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 7, 2026.

Is Cape Horn Family Restaurant permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Cape Horn Family Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 7, 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Cape Horn Family Restaurant located?

601 Lombard Road, Red Lion, PA 17356. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant: Impossible featured Cape Horn Family Restaurant?

Season 12, Episode 6 of Restaurant: Impossible, first aired December 3, 2015. The episode is titled “Ambush: Facing Fears”.

Did the makeover last at Cape Horn Family Restaurant?

The episode first aired December 3, 2015. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 11 years later —: As of September 2026, Cape Horn Family Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, September 7, 2026.

Is Cape Horn Family Restaurant still using the Restaurant: Impossible menu or branding?

The makeover included new paint, updated furnishings, and menu adjustments intended to modernize a business that had been serving the Red Lion community under the same name for a long stretch of years. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Address
601 Lombard Road, Red Lion, PA 17356
Venue type
restaurant
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • flipsidepa.com — https://www.flipsidepa.com/story/entertainment/events/york-hanover/2015/10/07/restaurant-impossible-gives-red-lion-restaurant-makeover/73860826/
  • flipsidepa.com — https://www.flipsidepa.com/story/entertainment/dining/2015/12/08/red-lion-cape-horn-restaurant-impossible/76980404/
  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/cape-horn-family-restaurant-red-lion

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