What Happened to The Main Dish After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

The Main Dish, a restaurant at 12009 Highway 231-431 North in Meridianville, Alabama, appeared on Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) in an episode that aired July 18, 2012. As shown in the episode, married owners Ken and Lynn Tverberg were running a restaurant whose look Food Network's own description later called "cartoonish," paired with a menu that did not match the upscale direction the couple wanted for the business. Chef Robert Irvine and his team spent two days and about ten thousand dollars turning the space into what Food Network describes as a "chic and upscale eatery," with a new Southern-inflected menu built around dishes such as fried green tomatoes, catfish, and steak, replacing the previous cartoonish theme with a more polished dining room the Tverbergs could market to a broader Huntsville-area audience.

What happened to The Main Dish afterward is unclear from currently available sources, and they conflict with one another. Food Network's own restaurant directory entry for the location carries the header "The Main Dish - UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP," suggesting the business continued operating under different owners at some point after the show, though the page does not show a date for when that ownership change happened or was last confirmed. At the same time, a Yelp listing for The Main Dish at this Meridianville address is titled "CLOSED," and the restaurant's original website domain, themaindishrestaurant.com, now redirects to an unrelated home-decor blog with no connection to the restaurant, which is at least consistent with the business no longer maintaining an active web presence of its own. Because Food Network's page and the Yelp listing point in opposite directions and neither carries a clear, recent date, this location's current operating status is recorded as unresolved rather than asserted as open or closed, and it should be revisited once a dated, independent source becomes available.