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What Happened to Anna Maria's Italian Restaurant? (Larchmont, NY)

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2 Larchmont, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Anna Maria's Italian Restaurant has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's business listing for the restaurant at 18 Chatsworth Avenue is tagged closed, with the listing updated in June 2026; the restaurant's own website domain no longer returns content. How we decide a status →

About this show's format: Described as staged/scripted by Wikipedia's article, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report. Surface this note on every record.

What happened after Restaurant Stakeout?

In this Season 2 episode, Willie Degel installed hidden cameras inside Anna Maria's Italian Restaurant in Larchmont, New York. The episode's title, "That Money's Out the Door," points to the core problem Degel targeted: loose cash handling and service habits that let revenue slip away unnoticed, including untracked comps and staff who let tables leave without a properly closed check. Watching the dining room from a control room with owner and chef Anna Maria Santorelli, Degel built a list of the lapses his cameras caught, then called a staff meeting to confront the team directly.

He returned the next day to walk staff through tighter procedures for order accuracy, register discipline, and guest follow-through, and made a later, casual visit to check whether the changes held. Wikipedia's article on Restaurant Stakeout describes the series as scripted, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report that found the show's premise staged for the cameras. Anna Maria's, opened in 2006 by Santorelli, a former executive chef at New York City's Gracie Mansion, kept operating in Larchmont for years after its 2012 appearance, including running Black Friday promotions as late as November 2013. A Yelp business listing for the restaurant at 18 Chatsworth Avenue, updated in June 2026, marks it as closed, and the restaurant's own website domain no longer returns content.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2

Episode 7
Aired
Title: That Money's Out the Door · What was featured: Italian restaurant's cash-handling and comp-tracking service problems

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/anna-marias-restaurant-larchmont
  3. patch.com https://patch.com/new-york/larchmont/anna-marias-italan-restaurant-in-larchmont-will-offer-black-friday-discounts-this-friday
  4. annamariasrestaurant.com http://www.annamariasrestaurant.com/
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Record rs-013 · checked by Cal Marchetti.