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What Happened to Pastori's After Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

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As of September 2026, Pastori's has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, June 2026.

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Yelp ·
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foodnetworkgossip.com ·

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What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Pastori's at 87 West Rd in Ellington is marked permanently closed (updated June 2026); a 2014 blog account reports the Savvidis family announced the closure directly on the restaurant's Facebook page.

  • Season / episode Season 2, Episode 6
  • Original air date
  • Address 87 West Rd, Ellington, CT 06029

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What happened after Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network)?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) featured Pastori's, a family-run pizza restaurant at 87 West Rd in Ellington, Connecticut, in the Season 2 episode "Pastori's," which aired August 24, 2011. As shown in the episode, the business, long a local pizza and Italian-American staple, was struggling with declining sales, an outdated dining room, and a menu Robert Irvine's team judged to be overloaded and inconsistent. The crew's renovation followed the show's standard format: refreshing the dining room's look, trimming the menu to a shorter, more consistent set of dishes, and coaching kitchen and front-of-house staff on working together, before sending the family back into service with a relaunch dinner for the community and the show's cameras.

Pastori's continued operating under the Savvidis family for several more years before closing. A 2014 blog post covering the show's alumni reported that the family posted directly to the restaurant's Facebook page on the day they closed, writing that they had "CLOSED our doors" after 28 years in business and thanking their customers and staff. Because that statement came from the owners themselves, it is treated as a strong, if secondhand-reported, signal of the closure; however, since this dataset withholds a "verified closed" rating from any restaurant until the site owner reviews the underlying sources, it does not by itself move this record past the "reported" tier.

The most recent independently dated confirmation is a Yelp business listing for the 87 West Rd address, which is marked permanently closed as of a June 2026 update to that page. No dated news article from a Connecticut outlet was located during this research pass describing what, if anything, later occupied the building, and no indication of a relaunch under new ownership at the same address was found either.

Sources are on file for James's review before this closure can be marked verified. No additional Restaurant: Impossible appearances tied to this address were identified.

Featured on Restaurant: Impossible

Season / episode
Season 2, Episode 6
Original air date
Episode title
Pastori's
What was featured
pizza restaurant renovation: dining room refresh, menu cut down, staff coaching
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Pastori's

Frequently asked questions

Is Pastori's still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Pastori's has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, June 2026.

What happened to Pastori's after Restaurant: Impossible?

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) featured Pastori's, a family-run pizza restaurant at 87 West Rd in Ellington, Connecticut, in the Season 2 episode "Pastori's," which aired August 24, 2011. As of September 2026, Pastori's has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, June 2026.

Is Pastori's permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Pastori's has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, June 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Pastori's located?

87 West Rd, Ellington, CT 06029. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant: Impossible featured Pastori's?

Season 2, Episode 6 of Restaurant: Impossible, first aired August 24, 2011. The episode is titled “Pastori's”.

Did the makeover last at Pastori's?

The episode first aired August 24, 2011. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 15 years later —: As of September 2026, Pastori's has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, June 2026.

What do reviews say since Restaurant: Impossible?

Because that statement came from the owners themselves, it is treated as a strong, if secondhand-reported, signal of the closure; however, since this dataset withholds a "verified closed" rating from any restaurant until the site owner reviews the underlying sources, it does not by itself move this record past the "reported" tier. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

Is Pastori's still using the Restaurant: Impossible menu or branding?

As shown in the episode, the business, long a local pizza and Italian-American staple, was struggling with declining sales, an outdated dining room, and a menu Robert Irvine's team judged to be overloaded and inconsistent. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Address
87 West Rd, Ellington, CT 06029
Venue type
pizzeria
Official website
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Sources

  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/pastoris-pizza-restaurant-ellington
  • foodnetworkgossip.com — https://www.foodnetworkgossip.com/2014/06/pastoris-from-restaurant-impossible-has.html

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