What Happened to Mill Creek BBQ After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) chef Robert Irvine visited Mill Creek BBQ in Redlands, California, for the Season 8 premiere episode "Up in Smoke," which aired March 5, 2014. The barbecue restaurant, on Orange Tree Lane and run by owners Lisette and Steve Brown, was dealing with sales and kitchen-consistency problems the show attributed to smoking and prep processes that varied night to night, along with a menu the production felt was too large for the size of the kitchen team. Irvine's crew renovated the dining room over the production's standard two-day window, refreshing the barbecue-themed décor, signage, and seating layout.

On the food side, Irvine standardized the smoking process and trimmed the menu to a shorter list of barbecue plates and burgers meant to be easier for the crew to execute consistently, and worked with the ownership team on operations and pricing. After the episode, the restaurant continued operating under close variations of its name for several years, later appearing in listings as Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers at the same Orange Tree Lane address, still tied to the Brown family. Delivery-menu sites and a dedicated Facebook page for Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers show the business continued taking orders under that name for a period after the show aired.

More recently, however, a Yelp listing for the address — now showing the name Mill Creek Cattle Company — is marked closed as of a September 2026 site check, indicating the property had changed branding again before ultimately closing. No single named news outlet was found documenting an exact closure date for any of these successive names, so the September 2026 Yelp listing is treated as the most current available signal of the location's status. The successive name changes documented here — from Mill Creek BBQ to Mill Creek Bar-B-Q & Burgers to Mill Creek Cattle Company — all occurred at the same Orange Tree Lane address, and no source reviewed for this record identified a change in the underlying ownership group across those name changes.