Who Runs Angelo's Family Restaurant Now? (Woodstock, IL)

What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Angelo's Family Restaurant, a diner on the Woodstock, Illinois town square at 117 E. Van Buren Street, for the episode "It's All Greek to Me," which aired June 23, 2013, with filming in April 2013. Angelo's had operated for nearly 40 years under founders Peter Mourelatos and Dennis Paloumbis, brothers-in-law who opened it as a neighborhood diner on the square. As shown in the episode, host Robert Irvine's team spent about $10,000 and roughly two days remodeling the restaurant, changing elements of the interior layout and decor. According to Shaw Local (then the Northwest Herald), reactions to those changes were mixed: some customers liked parts of the new look, but others did not, and family member Angelo Mourelatos said the restaurant needed additional work afterward just to get back on track. Shaw Local reported on December 27, 2013, that the founding family had decided it was time to retire and sold the business two weeks earlier to George Kanakaris, a McHenry County restaurant operator who also ran nearby Papa G's locations. Kanakaris closed the diner for about a week to ten days in early January 2014, restored several original features such as the counter and booths that the show's renovation had altered, and reopened it under the new name Papa G's, while keeping the same Van Buren Street address. Mourelatos told Shaw Local that changes made during and after the television renovation were a contributing factor in the family's decision to sell. More recent, dated confirmation of the business's current name and operating status at 117 E. Van Buren Street was not available: a 2026 business-listing profile for "Papa G's Family Restaurant" lists posted hours at that address, but the same profile also surfaces an older social-media post redirecting diners to "Angelo's Restaurant" hours, an inconsistency this record could not resolve with the sources reviewed and that warrants a fresh, dated check before any open/closed status is asserted with confidence.

Robert Irvine checked back in on Angelo's Family Restaurant in Woodstock, Illinois, in a Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) revisit segment billed as "Restaurant More Impossible," which aired February 12, 2014. Angelo's had gone through an original renovation episode in an earlier season, when Irvine reworked the Greek-diner menu and refreshed the Van Buren Street space. The follow-up segment looked at how the business and the family running it had fared since that visit. Local coverage from Shaw Local, the Woodstock-area paper that had covered the original episode, later reported that the family found the restaurant's post-renovation identity did not feel like their own anymore, and that Angelo's, after 39 years in business, closed; ownership of the building also changed hands afterward, per that local reporting. This record covers only the "More Impossible" check-in segment; the original episode and the restaurant's full status history are tracked under Angelo's separate, earlier restaurant record.