Is Mama Campisi's Restaurant Still Open? Update (Saint Louis, MO)

What happened after Man v. Food?

Man v. Food's Casey Webb-era stop in St. Louis (S6E4, aired December 11, 2017) featured toasted ravioli on the Hill, the city's historic Italian-American neighborhood. Mama's On The Hill, a family-run Italian restaurant on Edwards Street, is one of several Hill restaurants associated with popularizing the breaded, deep-fried ravioli that has become a signature St. Louis appetizer, according to the restaurant's own site, mamasonthehill.com. The restaurant has served classic Italian entrees alongside the ravioli for decades in the neighborhood. Since the episode aired, coverage of the Hill's Italian food scene has continued to reference the restaurant as a longtime fixture. Yelp's listing for the business, updated June 2026, shows recent customer reviews describing visits to the dining room and praising the meatballs and lasagna, indicating the restaurant remains active. The restaurant's website continues to list a current dinner menu and contact details for the Edwards Street location.

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Mama Campisi's Restaurant on The Hill, St. Louis's historic Italian neighborhood, at 2132 Edwards Street, for the episode "Bring Mama Back," which aired October 23, 2013, opening the show's seventh season. The restaurant's building dates to the 1940s, when it opened as Oldani's, said locally to be the birthplace of St. Louis's toasted-ravioli dish, according to an account the restaurant's current owner has recounted in local press; it was renamed Mama Campisi's in 1982 and later run by Mama Campisi's sons. In 2005, Andrea and Lance Ervin purchased the restaurant and reopened it in February 2006 under the combined name Mama Campisi's, Mama's on The Hill, keeping the Campisi name intentionally out of respect for the neighborhood's attachment to it; that ownership and rebranding predate the 2013 television episode by several years. As shown in the episode, host Robert Irvine's team spent roughly two days and about $10,000 addressing the restaurant's menu, kitchen operations and dining room under the show's standard format, working with the Ervins rather than replacing them. The Ervins continued running the restaurant after the show aired and have kept doing so since. The restaurant's own website, mamasonthehill.com, lists current hours, an online reservation system with a stated no-show policy, and a description of chef Antonino Astarita's kitchen and banquet operations, all consistent with an actively operating restaurant. A Yelp profile for Mama's on the Hill, updated as recently as June 2026, likewise reflects an active, currently reviewed business at the Edwards Street address. No closure, relocation or change of ownership has been identified in the sources reviewed for this record since the Ervins' 2005 purchase, and the restaurant continues to be promoted locally for group dining, wine dinners and catering under the same family ownership more than a decade after its Restaurant: Impossible appearance.