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What Happened to Valley View After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

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As of September 2026, Valley View has closed — confirmed via lancasteronline.com, March 2012.

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What the source shows: LancasterOnline (LNP Media Group) reported that Valley View Family Restaurant in Quarryville closed permanently on March 8, 2012, six days before its Restaurant: Impossible episode aired.

  • Season / episode Season 3, Episode 6
  • Original air date
  • Address 1416 Lancaster Pike, Quarryville, PA 17566

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What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Valley View, a small family-run diner in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, appeared on Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) in an episode titled "Valley View" that aired March 14, 2012. As shown in the episode, the restaurant sat in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country and had been operated across three generations of one family: owner Ann Wilmore, her daughter Kim Church running the kitchen, and granddaughter Kelly Church serving as general manager. The show depicted a dated dining room, a menu that had not been refreshed in years, worn furnishings, and structural issues with the building that the family had struggled to address on their own.

Chef Robert Irvine and his team spent two days and about ten thousand dollars on the property, repairing the building's physical problems, refreshing the dining room, and streamlining the menu around scratch-made diner staples meant to draw new customers to the rural roadside location and give the multigenerational family a workable path forward.

The renovation did not get the chance to play out. According to a March 2012 article in LancasterOnline (LNP Media Group), Valley View Family Restaurant closed permanently on March 8, 2012, six days before its "Valley View" episode aired on March 14. The paper reported the business shut down despite the completed makeover, tied to financial and ownership decisions made by the family who ran it, meaning local viewers watched a newly renovated dining room that no longer existed as a going concern by the time the broadcast aired.

In the years since, the building at 1416 Lancaster Pike sat vacant for roughly a decade. A separate, unrelated restaurant called Pop's Place opened in the same space in June 2024, according to ABC27, a new business under different owners rather than a continuation of Valley View. A Yelp listing for Valley View Restaurant at that address is marked permanently closed, last updated in July 2026, consistent with LancasterOnline's 2012 reporting that the diner never reopened after the show wrapped filming.

Featured on Restaurant: Impossible

Season / episode
Season 3, Episode 6
Original air date
Episode title
Valley View
What was featured
renovation of a small Amish-country family diner days before its permanent closure
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Valley View

Frequently asked questions

Is Valley View still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Valley View has closed — confirmed via lancasteronline.com, March 2012.

What happened to Valley View after Restaurant: Impossible?

Valley View, a small family-run diner in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, appeared on Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) in an episode titled "Valley View" that aired March 14, 2012. As of September 2026, Valley View has closed — confirmed via lancasteronline.com, March 2012.

Is Valley View permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Valley View has closed — confirmed via lancasteronline.com, March 2012. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Valley View located?

1416 Lancaster Pike, Quarryville, PA 17566. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant: Impossible featured Valley View?

Season 3, Episode 6 of Restaurant: Impossible, first aired March 14, 2012. The episode is titled “Valley View”.

Did the makeover last at Valley View?

The episode first aired March 14, 2012. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 14 years later —: As of September 2026, Valley View has closed — confirmed via lancasteronline.com, March 2012.

Is Valley View still using the Restaurant: Impossible menu or branding?

The show depicted a dated dining room, a menu that had not been refreshed in years, worn furnishings, and structural issues with the building that the family had struggled to address on their own. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Address
1416 Lancaster Pike, Quarryville, PA 17566
Venue type
diner
Official website
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Sources

  • lancasteronline.com — https://lancasteronline.com/features/entertainment/valley-view-to-appear-on-restaurant-impossible-despite-closing/article_fbe08f01-5fb9-5cb3-a5bb-657276f276dd.html
  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/valley-view-restaurant-quarryville
  • abc27.com — https://www.abc27.com/local-business/locally-owned-restaurant-pops-place-makes-lancaster-co-debut/

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