restaurantMystery Diners · Season 2, Episode 9 · Aired December 21, 2012
Rhythm Kitchen
Las Vegas, Nevada
The rescue did not hold; it later closed.
What happened after
New Orleans-style seafood/steak restaurant at 6435 S Decatur Blvd; Yelp's own closure banner ('Yelpers report this location has closed') plus a Facebook post from Feb 2026 citing a fire and pandemic lockdown as contributing causes.
What happened on the show
Scott Ghormley suspected his own wine sommelier of somehow dragging down sales at his Las Vegas restaurant. Charles Stiles sent mystery diners Chelsea and Hollie in as ordinary customers to observe him at work. On the hidden cameras, as aired, sommelier Faz pushes cheap bottles over what guests actually order, takes kickbacks from a distributor, and charges wine to his own account. The confrontation has Scott firing him for both the theft and the rudeness and taking over the wine list himself, Faz maintaining he stole nothing. The narration is vaguer than usual on where Faz landed, noting only that wine sales and satisfaction improved. With the staging allegations that later attached to Mystery Diners in view, this sommelier sting is best read as broadcast, a dramatized account rather than a verified one.
After the cameras left
Rhythm Kitchen has since closed, and the trigger was misfortune rather than any 2012 sting. The New Orleans-style seafood and steak restaurant at 6435 South Decatur Boulevard carries a Yelp closure banner, and a 2026 social post ties the shutdown to a fire and the pandemic lockdown, per our 2026 check. The official domain still resolves but no longer represents an operating room. This is ordinary lifecycle, a decade of business and then a hard run of luck, not a hidden-camera consequence.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.