What Happened to Pastori's 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in the episode, the business, long a local pizza and Italian-American staple, was struggling with declining sales, an outdated dining room, and a menu Robert Irvine's team judged to be overloaded and inconsistent.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;. 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. No additional Restaurant: Impossible appearances tied to this address were identified.