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What Happened to Windseeker Restaurant? (The Dalles, OR)

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As of September 2026, Windseeker Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

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What the source shows: A Yelp listing for The Windseeker Restaurant at 1535 Bargeway Rd shows a permanently-closed status as of an April 2026 update. No independent secondary source confirming a specific closure date was found.

  • Season / episode Season 5, Episode 6
  • Original air date
  • Address 1535 Bargeway Rd, The Dalles, OR 97058

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What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited the Windseeker Restaurant in The Dalles, Oregon, for an episode that aired January 16, 2013. According to Food Network Gossip, a fan blog covering the show (unverified), the restaurant had been owned for eighteen years by Veta and Ray Bingman, who had invested about $750,000 in the business over that time, and occupied a site overlooking the Columbia River.

Following the series' standard format, Robert Irvine and his crew spent roughly 48 hours and a budget of about $10,000 reworking the restaurant's menu, kitchen operations, and dining room before a relaunch dinner meant to showcase the changes to the Bingmans and the surrounding community. The specific menu and decor changes made during the renovation were not documented in independently named sources reviewed for this record.

The restaurant is no longer operating. A Yelp business listing for the Windseeker's Bargeway Road address currently shows a permanently-closed status, most recently updated in April 2026. No independent news report or official statement documenting when or why the restaurant closed was located during this research, so the closure date and circumstances remain unconfirmed beyond the maps listing itself.

The Dalles sits along the Columbia River Gorge roughly eighty miles east of Portland, an area popular with windsurfers and kiteboarders, and the Windseeker's riverside dining room was among the more visually distinctive settings the series profiled that season. Because the episode-specific problems Irvine identified on camera were not covered in the named sources available for this record, this summary is limited to what could be reasonably documented: the ownership history per the fan blog cited above, the show's standard renovation format, and the restaurant's current closed status per Yelp. No successor business at the address was identified, and it is not known from available sources whether the building has since been repurposed or remains vacant.

Featured on Restaurant: Impossible

Season / episode
Season 5, Episode 6
Original air date
Episode title
Windseeker Restaurant
What was featured
menu and dining-room renovation of a river-view restaurant
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Windseeker Restaurant

Frequently asked questions

Is Windseeker Restaurant still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Windseeker Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

What happened to Windseeker Restaurant after Restaurant: Impossible?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited the Windseeker Restaurant in The Dalles, Oregon, for an episode that aired January 16, 2013. As of September 2026, Windseeker Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

Is Windseeker Restaurant permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Windseeker Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Windseeker Restaurant located?

1535 Bargeway Rd, The Dalles, OR 97058. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant: Impossible featured Windseeker Restaurant?

Season 5, Episode 6 of Restaurant: Impossible, first aired January 16, 2013. The episode is titled “Windseeker Restaurant”.

Did the makeover last at Windseeker Restaurant?

The episode first aired January 16, 2013. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 13 years later —: As of September 2026, Windseeker Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, April 2026.

What do reviews say since Restaurant: Impossible?

The specific menu and decor changes made during the renovation were not documented in independently named sources reviewed for this record. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

Is Windseeker Restaurant still using the Restaurant: Impossible menu or branding?

Following the series' standard format, Robert Irvine and his crew spent roughly 48 hours and a budget of about $10,000 reworking the restaurant's menu, kitchen operations, and dining room before a relaunch dinner meant to showcase the changes to the Bingmans and the surrounding community. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Address
1535 Bargeway Rd, The Dalles, OR 97058
Venue type
restaurant
Official website
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Sources

  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-windseeker-restaurant-the-dalles
  • foodnetworkgossip.com — https://www.foodnetworkgossip.com/2013/01/restaurant-impossible-windseeker-update.html

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