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Where Is Shiraz Persian Restaurant Now? Restaurant Stakeout Update

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 3 White Plains, New York

Current status

Relocated

As of October 2026, Shiraz Kitchen & Wine Bar has relocated to 80 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY — confirmed via the business's own website/social account, accessed September 7, 2026. The original location is closed.

What the source shows: The business's own website recounts, in the owner's first-person account, that a 2022 fire destroyed the original Elmsford dining room and that the restaurant rebuilt in White Plains at 80 Mamaroneck Avenue as Shiraz Kitchen. 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?

Season 3's "Three Strikes and You're Out!" sent Willie Degel to Shiraz Persian Restaurant, a Persian restaurant in Elmsford, New York. The title suggests a pattern of repeated service failures, tickets mistimed and orders mishandled more than once with the same guests, the kind of recurring breakdown Restaurant Stakeout's hidden cameras are used to document before an owner runs out of chances to fix it. After reviewing the footage, Degel called a staff meeting to confront the team about the repeat failures, then returned to help tighten coordination between the kitchen and the floor so mistakes were not compounding, following up later for a status report.

Wikipedia's article on Restaurant Stakeout describes the series as scripted, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report that found the show's premise staged for the cameras. According to the restaurant's own account of its history, its Elmsford dining room went on to earn a "Very Good" New York Times review in 2016 and three consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognitions from 2020 through 2022 under the name Shiraz Kitchen, before a 2022 fire destroyed the Elmsford location. The owner has since rebuilt in White Plains, New York, reopening at 80 Mamaroneck Avenue as Shiraz Kitchen & Wine Bar, where guest reviews posted to the restaurant's own website are dated as recently as May 2026.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 3

Episode 4
Aired
Title: Three Strikes and You're Out! · What was featured: Persian restaurant's inconsistent kitchen timing and service coordination

Also in Season 3 Restaurant Stakeout

Season 3: 4 of 13 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
  2. shirazkitchen.com https://www.shirazkitchen.com/pages/shiraz-kitchen-and-wine-bar-white-plains-ny
  3. nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/nyregion/review-a-persian-renaissance-at-shiraz-kitchen-in-elmsford.html
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