TV Restaurants in Connecticut
51 restaurants and bars in Connecticut have been featured on Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Bar Rescue, Best Thing I Ever Ate, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Food Paradise, Hotel Hell, Kitchen Nightmares, Man v. Food, and Restaurant: Impossible. 34 open · 12 closed.
Map of TV restaurants in Connecticut
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1 of 51 Connecticut records have no confirmed coordinates yet and are listed below but not on the map.
Every tracked location in Connecticut
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Bethel, CT
Food Paradise
Closed verified Checked -
Bridgeport, CT
Kitchen Nightmares
Closed verified Checked -
Bridgeport, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open reported Checked -
Cos Cob, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open verified Checked -
Ellington, CT
Restaurant: Impossible
Closed verified Checked -
Fairfield, CT
Best Thing I Ever Ate
Open verified Checked -
Fairfield, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open reported Checked -
Fairfield, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Closed verified Checked -
Greenwich, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open verified Checked -
Groton, CT
Best Thing I Ever Ate
Open reported Checked -
Guilford, CT
Food Paradise
Open reported Checked -
Hartford, CT
Man v. Food
Closed verified Checked -
Hartford, CT
Man v. Food
Closed verified Checked -
Manchester, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Closed verified Checked -
Now: Randy's Wooster Street Pizza (formerly Randy's Wooster St. Pizza Shop)
Manchester, CT
Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
Now: Ted's Restaurant (formerly Ted's)
Meriden, CT
Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
Meriden, CT
Food Paradise · Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
Middletown, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Closed verified Checked -
Mystic, CT
Man v. Food
Open reported Checked -
Now: Rocks 21 (formerly Flood Tide)
Mystic, CT
Restaurant: Impossible
New owners reported Checked -
Naugatuck, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
MofonGO Puerto Rican & American Restaurant
New Britain, CT
Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
Now: BAR (formerly Bru Room at Bar)
New Haven, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
Now: Crispy Melty (formerly Caseus Cheese Truck)
New Haven, CT
Man v. Food
Renamed verified Checked -
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana
New Haven, CT
Best Thing I Ever Ate
Open reported Checked -
New Haven, CT
Best Thing I Ever Ate · Food Paradise
Open reported Checked -
New Haven, CT
Food Paradise · Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
New Haven, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
Now: Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana (formerly The Original Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana)
New Haven, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
Now: Doogie's (formerly Doogie's Long Dogs and Fat Burgers)
Newington, CT
Man v. Food
Open reported Checked -
Newington, CT
Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
Noank, CT
Man v. Food
Open verified Checked -
Now: Valencia Cocina (formerly Valencia Luncheria)
Norwalk, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Renamed reported Checked -
Pawcatuck, CT
Bar Rescue
Open verified Checked -
Pawcatuck, CT
Man v. Food
Open reported Checked -
Plainville, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
Now: Hoodoo Brown BBQ (formerly Hoodown Brown BBQ)
Ridgefield, CT
Food Paradise
Open reported Checked -
Seymour, CT
Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back
Closed verified Checked -
Stamford, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open verified Checked -
Stamford, CT
Food Paradise
Open reported Checked -
Stamford, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open verified Checked -
Stamford, CT
Kitchen Nightmares
Closed verified Checked -
Stamford, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open reported Checked -
Stamford, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
Now: La Fortuna (formerly Stella's Italian Restaurant)
Stratford, CT
Restaurant: Impossible
New owners reported Checked -
Now: Vasi's Taverna (formerly Vasi's Restaurant and Bar)
Waterbury, CT
Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back
Closed verified Checked -
West Haven, CT
Food Paradise
Open verified Checked -
Westport, CT
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Open verified Checked -
Willington, CT
Best Thing I Ever Ate
Open verified Checked -
Windsor, CT
Restaurant: Impossible
Closed verified Checked -
Now: 1754 House (formerly Curtis House)
Woodbury, CT
Hotel Hell
Renamed verified Checked
Shows filmed in Connecticut
- Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back — 2 locations in Connecticut
- Bar Rescue — 1 location in Connecticut
- Best Thing I Ever Ate — 5 locations in Connecticut
- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — 12 locations in Connecticut
- Food Paradise — 14 locations in Connecticut
- Hotel Hell — 1 location in Connecticut
- Kitchen Nightmares — 2 locations in Connecticut
- Man v. Food — 13 locations in Connecticut
- Restaurant: Impossible — 4 locations in Connecticut
How to use this map
Each pin is one restaurant or bar in Connecticut that appeared on a show we track. Pin colour is the status we have on file — open, closed, changed, or unknown — and clicking a pin opens its dated status and a link to the full page. Where pins sit close together they collapse into a numbered cluster; click it to zoom in until the individual pins separate.
The two dropdowns above the map filter the pins and the list below in the same move, so you can narrow to, say, closed locations from one show without losing your place. The list is the accessible version of the map: it carries the same 51 records in the same order, is fully keyboard-navigable, and "Show on map" on any card flies the map to that pin.
Status is never a live feed. Each card shows the date we last checked it — for Connecticut that is September 7, 2026 on the most recently reviewed record — and the source page it rests on. Confirm with the business before you drive anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
How many TV-featured restaurants in Connecticut are still open?
34 of the 51 Connecticut records we track are recorded open, 67% of the state's total, each with its own dated source. 12 are recorded closed.
What TV shows have featured restaurants in Connecticut?
Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back, Bar Rescue, Best Thing I Ever Ate, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Food Paradise, Hotel Hell, Kitchen Nightmares, Man v. Food, and Restaurant: Impossible.
Something on this page is wrong. What now?
Tell us what you're seeing and where you saw it. If we can't reach a confident answer within about a week, we lower the page's confidence label rather than leave a disputed claim standing.