restaurant24 Hours to Hell and Back · Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired June 13, 2018
Bella Gianna's
Congers, New York
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 1 · June 13, 2018 · Italian restaurant
Family-run Italian bistro.
What happened after
Italian restaurant established 1945 (formerly Romolo's), actively operating with current hours and promotions.
What happened on the show
The first target of Ramsay's Hell On Wheels rig was a family Italian bistro in Congers, and the twenty four hour clock started the way it always does on this show, with hidden cameras rolling before anyone knew he had arrived. What the surveillance kept returning to was not the cooking but the temperature of the room. The owner ran hot, and his temper spilled out of the kitchen and into the dining room and across his own family, so that a place with low prices and loyal regulars still felt tense to sit inside. Ramsay watched the shouting land on relatives who could not answer back, then walked in and named the pattern before he touched a single plate. From there the compressed rescue followed its usual shape. He rebuilt the menu, forced the owner to hear how the anger was costing him, drilled the kitchen through a test service, and pulled the covers off a renovated dining room in the final hours. The bet was simple: fix the man and the restaurant behind him would breathe again.
After the cameras left
Bella Gianna's took the lesson and kept going. As of our latest verification pass the Congers restaurant, which traces its history to 1945 under the earlier name Romolo's, was still operating, with an active Facebook page and current listings carrying promotions and steady reviews. That makes it one of the show's clean wins, an opener that did not collapse the moment the truck pulled away. The family friction Ramsay circled was the real repair, and on the evidence it held long enough to matter.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.