Is Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant Still Open? (Bayfield, WI)

Hotel Impossible's Season 8 episode Lake Superior, Hotel Inferior, which aired 2016-12-05, featured Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant in Bayfield, Wisconsin. The business's own website, greunkesinn.com, returned an HTTP 200 response on 2026-09-09 with a last-modified date of 2026-04-28 and 2026 copyright text, now presenting the property as Greunke's Restaurant & First Street Inn, combining a twelve-room inn with a restaurant serving a whitefish-liver dish and a Friday-style fish boil. Google Places lists the same address, 17 Rittenhouse Ave, and business status operational. The site's own posted hours describe the restaurant as open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner from May through October, matching the seasonal pattern typical of Lake Superior tourist towns.

Its navigation menu lists the inn, restaurant, and a gift-card option alongside a check-availability booking tool for lodging. No source reviewed here indicated any change of ownership, closure, or name change beyond the reordering of the inn-and-restaurant name; the underlying Greunke's brand, address, and combined lodging-and-dining format appear unchanged from what was featured on the show. Because the current evidence comes directly from the business's own live, currently dated website rather than a third-party listing, it stands as an official source describing current operations. No news coverage of a sale, renovation, or closure was located to add further context beyond the site's own content. A decade after the episode aired, Greunke's continues to operate as a combined inn and restaurant at the same Bayfield address, based on its own current site.