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What Happened to Dock's Clam Bar After Restaurant Stakeout?

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 3 Staten Island, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Dock's Clam Bar has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Dock's Clam Bar shows it permanently closed as of a June 2026 update, and the Staten Island Advance's own social media account separately announced the restaurant serving its last clams. 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 'Kitchen Mafia,' Willie Degel's hidden cameras went up inside Dock's Clam Bar, a longstanding seafood restaurant on Staten Island's south shore, after the owners called him in to find out why the business was struggling. The episode's title points to what the footage caught: an entrenched, clique-like kitchen crew resistant to direction from ownership and unwilling to change how the line ran. At the staff meeting, Willie confronted the kitchen with what the cameras showed and pushed the owners to reassert control over the back of house, retrain staff on consistent procedures, and break up the favoritism the cameras had exposed.

He came back later, off camera-ready, to check whether the kitchen had fallen in line. Dock's Clam Bar kept serving lunch and dinner at its Page Avenue address for years afterward, but the restaurant has since closed; the Staten Island Advance's own social media account announced that the restaurant served its final bushel of clams at lunch, and Yelp's business listing for the address is marked permanently closed, last updated in June 2026. Wikipedia's article on the series notes that it has been described as scripted, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report that questioned the show's authenticity.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 3

Episode 8
Aired
Title: Kitchen Mafia · What was featured: Seafood clam bar; cliquish kitchen staff resisting oversight

Also in Season 3 Restaurant Stakeout

Season 3: 4 of 13 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
  2. tvguide.com https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/restaurant-stakeout/episodes-season-3/1000468382/
  3. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/docks-clam-bar-staten-island
  4. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/statenislandadvance/posts/docks-clam-bar-shucked-its-last-bushel-of-clams-at-lunch-on-monday-the-rest-of-t/10153392969646746/
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