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What Happened to Somers 202 After Restaurant Stakeout?

Restaurant Stakeout, Season 4 Yorktown Heights, New York

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Somers 202 has closed — confirmed via Yelp, February 2026.

What the source shows: Yelp's listing carries a closed tag last updated February 2026. A separate, apparently unmaintained business directory shows static "open now" hours with zero reviews ever posted; this stale listing is not treated as credible. 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?

In "Somers Almost Over," "Restaurant Stakeout" profiled Somers 202, an American restaurant and bar in Yorktown Heights, New York that two Wall Street-background friends, Joe Mazzella and Gene Angelo, had opened four years earlier with nearly a million dollars of their own money. According to a contemporaneous Patch article, business had "bottomed out" by the time the show got involved, and the same article said Willie Degel's hidden cameras caught customers refilling their own drinks while the bartender was away, a dog eating under a table, and an understaffed floor struggling to keep up. Degel met with Mazzella and Angelo, set up the surveillance, and worked with them on staffing and service fixes; a contemporaneous recap described the bar as noticeably busier about six weeks later.

Wikipedia's article on the show, citing a 2012 realityblurred.com report, describes Restaurant Stakeout's surveillance-and-intervention format as staged and scripted rather than a genuine unannounced investigation. Years later, evidence of the restaurant's status is mixed: Yelp's listing for the Old Tomahawk Street address carries a closed tag last updated in February 2026, while an older, apparently unmaintained business directory still shows static hours marked "open now" with no reviews ever posted, a sign of a stale rather than current listing.

The episode Restaurant Stakeout, Season 4

Episode 11
Aired
Title: Somers Almost Over · What was featured: American bar and grill's understaffed, undisciplined service

Also in Season 4 Restaurant Stakeout

Season 4: 3 of 13 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners

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Sources we checked 5 references

  1. patch.com https://patch.com/new-york/bedford/somers-202-restaurant-rescued-by-food-network-show-bedford
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/somers-202-yorktown-heights
  3. dexknows.com https://www.dexknows.com/yorktown-heights-ny/bp/somers-202-restaurant-grille-467926046?lid=467926046
  4. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
  5. realityblurred.com https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/03/food-network-restaurant-stakeout-fake/
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