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Is Division Street Grill Still Open? Restaurant Stakeout Update

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 4 Peekskill, New York

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Division Street Grill is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 15, 2026.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website (checked September 2026) now states it is 'Currently open for Special Events, Catering and Take-out.' Its Google Business listing shows normal operating hours rather than a 'Permanently closed' flag, its Facebook page has recent posts about live jazz nights, and OpenTable lists an active reservation page — together superseding the prior single-source Yelp closure tag, which the original record had already flagged as uncorroborated by a second source. 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?

"Restaurant Stakeout" traveled a few doors down North Division Street in Peekskill, New York for "Division Street Disaster," an episode centered on Division Street Grill, a contemporary American and international restaurant that also operated as a caterer and hosted live jazz and blues performances with musicians such as guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. As with other episodes, Willie Degel is understood to have used hidden cameras to observe front-of-house and kitchen problems before working with ownership on fixes to service and operations. The restaurant had been open for well over a decade by the time of filming, having been established under owner Arne Paglia years earlier and doing business under the corporate name Jardines Restaurant & Caterers Inc. Wikipedia's article on the show, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report, describes Restaurant Stakeout's surveillance-and-intervention format as staged and scripted rather than a genuine unannounced investigation.

No news coverage of a closure was located during the original research, and its Facebook page couldn't be accessed at the time — the only signal was a single, uncorroborated Yelp closure tag. That tag is now outdated: as of September 2026, the restaurant's own website states it is open for special events, catering, and take-out, backed by normal hours on its Google Business listing, recent Facebook posts about live jazz nights, and an active OpenTable reservation page.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 4

Episode 12
Aired
Title: Division Street Disaster · What was featured: American/international restaurant and live-jazz venue's service issues

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Season 4: 3 of 13 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 5 references

  1. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/division-street-grill-peekskill
  2. yellowpages.com https://www.yellowpages.com/peekskill-ny/mip/division-street-grill-5056286
  3. aaa.com https://www.aaa.com/tripcanvas/restaurant/division-street-grill-AA5188
  4. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
  5. realityblurred.com https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/03/food-network-restaurant-stakeout-fake/
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Record rs-044 · checked by Cal Marchetti.