Stone's Throw

What happened after

Fine dining restaurant on the Housatonic River; last known Facebook activity Nov 2019, closed shortly after. Same address (337 Roosevelt Dr) is now occupied by a different restaurant, Housatonic House Restaurant & Bar, opened April 2022.

Closure date on record: 2019-11

What happened on the show

On the bank of the Housatonic River in Seymour, Ramsay met a fine dining room run by a couple whose situation was heavier than most. The manager was working herself to exhaustion while surviving breast and thyroid cancer, and her husband owned the place and cooked the food. The surveillance underlined the cruelty of the math: despite the husband's thirty years of experience and a history of award winning restaurants, this one was failing anyway, its reviews sliding as the couple burned out. The recon was pointed enough that several of Ramsay's own crew were struck ill by the food before filming. Across the compressed day he rebuilt the menu, tried to lift some of the weight off an owner who had none left to give, and delivered the renovation reveal. The visit's hard truth was that talent and history mean nothing once the people carrying them have nothing left.

After the cameras left

Stone's Throw closed in January 2020, only months after the episode, and was put up for sale at nine hundred thousand dollars. Reviews had already been declining before the doors shut. The same 337 Roosevelt Drive riverside address did not stay empty long: a different operator opened Housatonic House Restaurant and Bar there in April 2022, and it continues to trade. So the room on the Housatonic found a second life, just not under the exhausted couple Ramsay could not quite rescue.