Is VB3 Still Open? Restaurant Stakeout Update (Jersey City, NJ)
Restaurant Stakeout, Season 4 Jersey City, New Jersey
Current status
As of October 2026, VB3 is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 2026.
What the source shows: The business's own website shows current hours, an active online-ordering system, and a live Labor Day 2026 promotion; a Yelp listing updated March 2026 with 500+ reviews corroborates continued operation. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 4, Episode 8
- Aired
- Address 475 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07310
- Now called Villa Borghese III (VB3 Pizzeria)
- Website vb3pizzeria.com
- Show map
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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 the "Clueless Cousins" episode of "Restaurant Stakeout," Willie Degel was brought in to help VB3, a high-end Italian restaurant that chef Mike Colletti had opened in downtown Jersey City about a year earlier with two of his cousins. According to the show's own description, Colletti ran the kitchen with precision, but his cousin Joe struggled to manage the front of house and an unorganized staff, putting the cousins' six-figure investment at risk of disappearing along with the business. Using hidden cameras, Degel observed the service breakdowns before revealing himself and coaching the team on organization and staff management.
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. VB3 has continued operating at the same Washington Boulevard address in Jersey City's Waterfront district ever since, now doing business as a pizzeria under its full name, Villa Borghese III; a Yelp listing updated in March 2026 with more than 500 reviews corroborates continued operation. VB3 in fact opened in 2012, a precise year the episode's own broadcast description left approximate by describing the opening simply as 'about a year' before it aired.
The episode
Also in Season 4
Season 4: 3 of 13 still open · 1 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 490 Park
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Ep 9A Plate of Soul
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Ep 1012 Grapes
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Ep 11Somers 202
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Sources we checked
- vb3pizzeria.com https://vb3pizzeria.com/
- Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/vb3-pizzeria-jersey-city-3
- njmonthly.com https://njmonthly.com/restaurants/vb3/
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_Stakeout
- realityblurred.com https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/03/food-network-restaurant-stakeout-fake/
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Record rs-040 · checked by Cal Marchetti.