What Happened to White Mountain Tavern After Restaurant: Impossible (FN)?

White Mountain Tavern operated inside Woodward's Resort at 527 US-3 in Lincoln, New Hampshire, run by co-owners David and Melissa since the tavern opened in 2020. Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) featured the business in the episode "Mountain Town Mess," which aired 2023-03-30, with filming on 2022-11-19 and 2022-11-20. According to coverage of the episode, David and Melissa had a volatile working relationship, and the tavern had developed a difficult standing in the local community by the time Robert Irvine arrived. Irvine's rescue applied the show's usual two-day renovation and staff retraining to the tavern space inside the resort, working to repair both the physical restaurant and the owners' working relationship ahead of a relaunch service.

WOKQ reported on 2025-02-03 that David and Melissa announced on Facebook that the tavern was closing permanently after four years in business. WOKQ reported that the owners thanked their employees, musicians, and regular customers in the announcement, and attributed the closure to factors including the COVID-19 pandemic and difficult winter weather affecting the resort town. A Yelp listing for White Mountain Tavern, updated August 2026, marked the business as closed, showing 76 reviews recorded at the 527 US-3 address, categorized under comfort food, with 70 photos posted over its years in operation.

A Tripadvisor review of Woodward's White Mountain Resort, listed there as part of the Best Western Signature Collection, noted that the property no longer had a restaurant on site following the tavern's closure. Google Places listed the White Mountain Tavern address as permanently closed at the time of this check, consistent with the WOKQ and Yelp reporting. No independent restaurant website for the tavern was located during this check, which is consistent with a business that has ceased operating. No source found for this update indicated a replacement restaurant had opened at Woodward's Resort, and this record reflects the White Mountain Tavern business and location only.