Is Athena Mediterranean Cuisine Still Open? Restaurant Stakeout Update
Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2 Brooklyn, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Athena Mediterranean Cuisine is listed open on Yelp, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.
What the source shows: Yelp's listing for the restaurant shows continuing review activity through an August 2026 update with no closure flag, and the restaurant's own ordering website is live and current. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 12
- Aired
- Address 535 6th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
- Website athenacuisineny.com
- Show map
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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?
Season 2's "My Big Fat Greek Nightmare" brought Willie Degel to Athena Mediterranean Cuisine, a family-owned Greek restaurant in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York. The punning title points to a family-run kitchen and dining room where old habits and mixed signals among relatives working the floor were undercutting service, a dynamic Restaurant Stakeout's hidden cameras are designed to expose. After reviewing the footage, Degel called a staff meeting to lay out the specific lapses, then returned to coach the family on consistent service standards and a clearer division of duties, following up later, out of uniform, for a status report.
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. Athena, at 535 6th Avenue, continued serving Greek dishes with what a 2017 feature in the Brooklyn Reporter described as a reinvented menu, and the restaurant has kept a large base of online reviews in the years since. Its own ordering website remains live, and a Yelp business listing for the address shows continuing review activity through an August 2026 update, with no indication of closure.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/athena-mediterranean-cuisine-brooklyn-3
- athenacuisineny.com https://www.athenacuisineny.com/
- brooklynreporter.com https://brooklynreporter.com/2017/03/opa-greek-food-reinvented-park-slopes-athena-mediterranean-cuisine/
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Record rs-018 · checked by Cal Marchetti.