Where Is Aponte's Pizzeria Now? Restaurant: Impossible (FN) Update

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Aponte's Pizzeria & Family Restaurant, owned by married couple Tony and Sommer Aponte at 312 Reading Road in Mason, Ohio, for the episode "Pie in the Sky," which aired August 25, 2013, with filming taking place June 12-13 of that year, according to contemporaneous local coverage of the taping. As shown in the episode, the pizzeria was dealing with financial strain, and host Robert Irvine's team spent roughly two days and about $10,000 reworking the restaurant's pizza and Italian menu, kitchen workflow and dining room, in the show's standard renovation format, before a public relaunch event. The Apontes continued to operate the restaurant under the same name and at the same Reading Road address for several years after the show aired, building a local following for dishes such as its pizza and family-style Italian plates.

The business eventually closed at that original location: a Yelp listing for Aponte's Pizzeria & Family Restaurant, updated as recently as August 2026, marks the Reading Road address as permanently closed, with secondary reporting on the closure pointing to around November 2018, though that specific month has not been independently confirmed through a named local news outlet for this record. Rather than closing entirely, Tony Aponte relocated the business a short distance to 216 West Main Street in downtown Mason, where it now operates under the new name Tony's Pizzeria & Aponte Catering. The business's own website for the Main Street location, reviewed for this record, shows an active online ordering system, a current food and drink menu, posted hours for most days of the week, and a standing catering division still branded under the Aponte name, indicating the relocated restaurant continues to trade under Tony's day-to-day ownership even though the original Aponte's Pizzeria storefront and name at the Reading Road address are no longer in operation.