Is Dodge City Still Open? Update (Harrisburg, PA)

What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) returned to Dodge City Steakhouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a 2019 revisit episode titled "Revisited: Owner Tries to Do It All," part of the show's fifteenth season. This is the same family-owned steakhouse Chef Robert Irvine first helped in an original 2011 makeover episode, when the business -- then operating under a Wild West theme the show described as dated -- was close to closing after roughly three decades in operation. The 2019 follow-up checked in on whether the owner had learned to delegate more to family members, since Food Network's own description of the episode says he had carried the business alone at the time of the original visit, and looked at how the restaurant had managed roughly $600,000 in debt in the years between visits.

According to Food Network's own description of the follow-up, and consistent with reporting on the show's revisit format more broadly, the restaurant's fortunes had substantially improved in the years following the original 2011 renovation, with the family reporting more shared ownership of daily operations by the time of the 2019 visit.

The restaurant remains open today under the Dodge City Steakhouse name at 1037 Paxton St, Harrisburg. Its own official website, dodgecityrestaurant.com, describes it as family owned and operated since 1980, and Yelp's listing for the business, last updated in September 2026, shows continuing reviews and current hours. No reporting was found describing a closure, rename, or ownership change since either the original 2011 episode or this 2019 revisit.

Given the combination of the business's own current website and an independently, recently updated Yelp listing, this entry is classified as open with verified confidence. Note for the Builder: this record (ri-156) covers the same physical restaurant as ri-008 from an earlier research batch, which covered the original 2011 makeover episode; the two should be cross-referenced and deduplicated at merge, since they describe one continuous business rather than two separate restaurants.

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Dodge City, a steakhouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania founded by Doug and Debbie Krick in 1980, for the season-two premiere, which aired July 6, 2011. Filming took place in spring 2011, and a retrospective on the restaurant's own site, chefirvine.com, titled "Dodging a Bullet," describes the episode as one of the rescues Robert Irvine considers a success story, with the owners building on the changes rather than abandoning them once the cameras left town and the show's crew moved on to its next location on the schedule. Irvine's team overhauled the restaurant's kitchen, decor, and menu over the show's typical two-day window; the owners kept most of the changes and, according to the restaurant's website, continued finishing the bar and other renovation work themselves after filming wrapped, extending the makeover beyond what the crew completed on camera and investing further in the space on their own over the following months and years. Dodge City has remained open under the same ownership in the years since the episode aired. Its website, dodgecityrestaurant.com, lists the business as "Dodge City Steakhouse" at 1037 Paxton Street, Harrisburg, PA 17104, describing it as central Pennsylvania's premier steakhouse and offering both indoor and outdoor seating, with the site's copyright notice dated through 2026. Yelp's current listing for "Dodge City Steakhouse," updated in September 2026 with more than 340 reviews, likewise shows the restaurant as active and operating with a strong local reputation. The restaurant is now commonly marketed as "Dodge City Steakhouse," an expansion of the "Dodge City" name used in the original 2011 episode, but it has remained under the same family's ownership throughout the fifteen years since, a comparatively rare long-term outcome among the restaurants featured in the show's early seasons, most of which changed hands, changed names, or closed within a few years of their television appearance.