What Happened to Haven Grill BBQ After Restaurant Stakeout?
Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2 Port Washington, New York
Current status
As of October 2026, Haven Grill BBQ has closed — confirmed via Yelp, May 2026.
What the source shows: Yelp's business listing for the restaurant, updated in May 2026, is tagged closed. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 2, Episode 10
- Aired
- Address 14 Haven Ave, Port Washington, NY 11050
- Website No current website found
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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 "On Its Last Leg" brought Willie Degel to Haven Grill BBQ, a charcoal-grill restaurant on Haven Avenue in Port Washington, New York, run by restaurant partners Elio Sobrero and Bobbi Schwinger. The episode's title points to a business in real financial and operational trouble, the kind of situation where Restaurant Stakeout's hidden cameras typically catch slow tickets, inattentive service, and other habits that were pushing away the returning customers a struggling restaurant needs most. After reviewing the footage with ownership, Degel called a staff meeting to lay out the problems plainly, then returned to coach the team on faster, more attentive service around the restaurant's charcoal-grilled mixed grill and happy-hour offerings, following up later to check whether business had picked back up.
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. Haven Grill BBQ occupied the former Cafe Capriccio space at 14 Haven Avenue, a stretch of Port Washington that has since seen several restaurant turnovers at nearby addresses. A Yelp business listing for the address, updated in May 2026, marks Haven Grill as closed, and other restaurant-directory listings likewise describe it as permanently closed.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/haven-grill-port-washington
- menupix.com https://www.menupix.com/longisland/restaurants/380164152/Haven-Grill-Port-Washington-NY
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Record rs-016 · checked by Cal Marchetti.