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What Happened to Somers 202 After Restaurant Stakeout?

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

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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 evidence of current operation, and the discrepancy is noted as conflicting evidence.

  • Season / episode Season 4, Episode 11
  • Original air date
  • Address 2 Old Tomahawk St, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

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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.

Featured on Restaurant Stakeout

Season / episode
Season 4, Episode 11
Original air date
Episode title
Somers Almost Over
What was featured
American bar and grill's understaffed, undisciplined service
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Somers 202

Frequently asked questions

Is Somers 202 still open in 2026?

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

What happened to Somers 202 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. As of September 2026, Somers 202 has closed — confirmed via Yelp, February 2026.

Is Somers 202 permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Somers 202 has closed — confirmed via Yelp, February 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Somers 202 located?

2 Old Tomahawk St, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Restaurant Stakeout featured Somers 202?

Season 4, Episode 11 of Restaurant Stakeout, first aired December 11, 2013. The episode is titled “Somers Almost Over”.

What do reviews say since Restaurant Stakeout?

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. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

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Address
2 Old Tomahawk St, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Venue type
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Sources

  • patch.com — https://patch.com/new-york/bedford/somers-202-restaurant-rescued-by-food-network-show-bedford
  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/somers-202-yorktown-heights
  • dexknows.com — https://www.dexknows.com/yorktown-heights-ny/bp/somers-202-restaurant-grille-467926046?lid=467926046
  • 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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