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

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As of September 2026, Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed April 28, 2026.

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greunkesinn.com ·

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What the source shows: The inn's own website, live with 2026 copyright and an April 2026 last-modified date, shows the same combined inn-and-restaurant operation at the original address.

  • Season / episode Season 8, Episode 7
  • Original air date
  • Address 17 Rittenhouse Ave, Bayfield, WI 54814

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What happened after Hotel Impossible?

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 in this review 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.

Featured on Hotel Impossible

Season / episode
Season 8, Episode 7
Original air date
Episode title
Lake Superior, Hotel Inferior
What was featured
Substandard conditions at a Bayfield lakeside inn and restaurant
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant

Frequently asked questions

Is Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed April 28, 2026.

What happened to Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant after Hotel Impossible?

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. As of September 2026, Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed April 28, 2026.

Where is Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant located?

17 Rittenhouse Ave, Bayfield, WI 54814. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Hotel Impossible featured Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant?

Season 8, Episode 7 of Hotel Impossible, first aired December 5, 2016. The episode is titled “Lake Superior, Hotel Inferior”.

What do reviews say since Hotel Impossible?

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. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

Is Greunke's First Street Inn & Restaurant still using the Hotel Impossible menu or branding?

Its navigation menu lists the inn, restaurant, and a gift-card option alongside a check-availability booking tool for lodging. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Address
17 Rittenhouse Ave, Bayfield, WI 54814
Venue type
hotel
Official website
greunkesinn.com

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