What Happened to Mike LaSusa's Italian Restaurant? (Oak Creek, WI)

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Mike LaSusa's Italian Restaurant at 8955 South 5th Avenue in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, for "Unfixable Family," season 7 episode 7, which aired December 4, 2013. The episode centered on a multi-generational ownership dispute among family members Patrick, Mary, and their son Mike, with the show depicting disagreements over the food, the decor, and the overall direction of the restaurant severe enough that one of the owners left the renovation partway through and did not return before filming wrapped. Chef Robert Irvine spent the two-day renovation reworking the Italian menu, addressing kitchen workflow issues, and updating the dining room, all while trying to get the family back on speaking terms so the business could move forward under a single, agreed-upon direction.

According to Food Network Gossip's coverage, the restaurant's owners posted on the business's Facebook page that Mike LaSusa's closed after service on Saturday, November 7, 2015, just under two years after the Restaurant: Impossible episode aired. That account attributes the timeline directly to the restaurant's own social media announcement rather than to secondhand reporting, though the original post itself has not been independently confirmed. Reality TV Revisited's summary of the restaurant's history is consistent with a 2015 closure, and neither source describes a successor business opening at the same address afterward.

Yelp's current listing for "Mike La Susa's" at 8955 S 5th Ave, Oak Creek, Wisconsin shows the location marked closed, and Foursquare similarly lists the business as "now closed." A Facebook page for "Mike La Susa's Italian Restaurant" in Oak Creek remains visible online but does not appear to reflect an actively operating business based on other available listings. No current website for the restaurant was found, and no successor restaurant at the same address was identified.