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What Happened to PepperJack Grill After Restaurant Stakeout?

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2 Staten Island, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, PepperJack Grill has closed — confirmed via Google, September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: Google Places lists the business as permanently closed at 310 Manor Rd, Staten Island, NY 10314. How we decide a status →

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?

Restaurant Stakeout's fourth episode of season two, "Damsel in Distress," aired September 19, 2012, and featured Willie Degel's crew at PepperJack Grill, a gastropub in the Castleton Corners neighborhood of Staten Island known for rotating local artwork and an extensive sangria list. The show's format uses hidden-camera footage of unsupervised staff to identify service and management problems, which Degel then addresses with the owner, in this case a restaurant led by a female owner-operator, per contemporaneous coverage on statenislandlifestyle.com. Wikipedia's article on Restaurant Stakeout describes the series as staged, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report on producer-directed incidents and coached cast members at several of the show's featured restaurants, a caveat that applies here as well.

Current information about PepperJack Grill's status at 316 Manor Road is inconsistent across sources: a Yelp listing for the address is marked closed, while a separate restaurant-fan site directory continues to list it as open under standard daily hours, and the restaurant's own former web address no longer resolves to any content. None of these three signals is a dated, independently confirmed report of either ongoing operation or closure, and they do not agree with one another.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 2

Episode 4
Aired
Title: Damsel in Distress · What was featured: Gastropub with rotating local art; service and management problems

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Sources we checked 4 references

  1. realityblurred.com https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/03/food-network-restaurant-stakeout-fake/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/pepperjack-grill-staten-island
  3. whereyoueat.com https://whereyoueat.com/PepperJack-Grill-new-13238.html
  4. statenislandlifestyle.com https://statenislandlifestyle.com/pepperjack-grill-in-staten-island-a-neighborhood-staple/
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