Is Sapori D'Italia Still Open? Restaurant: Impossible (FN) Update

Part 1 — Season 15, Episode 12 Aired August 24, 2019

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) checked back in on Sapori D'Italia in Fountain Hills, Arizona, for the episode 'Revisited: All in the Family' (S15E12), which aired 2019-08-24. Robert Irvine had originally visited the Italian restaurant, owned by Gasper and Maria Manno, in a Season 5 episode that aired 2013-01-23, after finding a clean, well-run kitchen undercut by a wait staff that argued with each other in front of customers. The original rescue focused on service and staff coordination rather than the food itself, according to Robert Irvine's own recap of the visit published on chefirvine.com. The 2019 revisit, built around family dynamics, followed up on how the Manno family had managed the restaurant's staff and service in the years since.

Part 2 — Season 5, Episode 7 Aired January 23, 2013

Restaurant: Impossible (Food Network) visited Sapori D'Italia, an Italian restaurant in Fountain Hills, Arizona, for an episode that aired January 23, 2013. According to realitytvupdates.com, a fan site covering the show, owners Gasper and Maria Manno had bought the restaurant about five years earlier at Maria's initiative, and by the time of filming the business was losing roughly $5,000 a month; the same site reported the Mannos had invested about $785,000 in the restaurant, taken a $300,000 equity loan against their home, and borrowed close to $200,000 more from friends and family to keep it running, and described visible conflict between Gasper and Maria over how the dining room was managed as a recurring theme of the episode. Following the series' standard format, Robert Irvine and his crew spent about 48 hours and a roughly $10,000 budget reworking the restaurant's menu, kitchen operations, and dining room before a relaunch dinner intended to demonstrate the changes to the Manno family and the Fountain Hills community.

Restaurant: Impossible later revisited Sapori D'Italia in a follow-up "Revisited" episode that aired as part of the show's fifteenth season, checking on whether the Mannos had been able to keep running the restaurant together after the original renovation. Unlike many restaurants featured on the series, Sapori D'Italia continues to operate today. The restaurant's own website, most recently copyrighted 2026, lists current hours of Tuesday through Sunday from 4 to 9 p.m. and the same Saguaro Boulevard address and phone number referenced in earlier coverage of the episode, and describes an ongoing menu of wood-fired pizza and casual Italian dishes. A Yelp listing for the restaurant shows about 750 reviews and a rating near 4.5 stars, with an update dated May 2026, consistent with the restaurant remaining active more than a decade after its Restaurant: Impossible renovation.