Abudanza Ristorante

What happened after

Closed permanently in 2015 following a fire.

Closure date on record: 2015-05

What happened on the show

Abudanza Ristorante on Boston Road in Wilbraham, Massachusetts had its ninth season episode under the show's compact formula, Irvine given two days and the network's small makeover fund to steady a struggling Italian room. What Irvine found and reworked inside Abudanza is not documented in the Wikipedia summary, which is blank for this episode, so the detail stays off this page. The ending came from disaster rather than slow decline. Following a March 2015 fire, the restaurant closed for good that May, as local outlet MassLive reported and a directory listing marking it closed corroborates. The family did not disappear from food entirely, keeping a separate sister operation, Abudanza Express, running in nearby Ludlow. The Wilbraham restaurant Irvine visited, though, did not survive the fire.

After the cameras left

Abudanza Ristorante closed permanently in May 2015, following a fire earlier that spring. MassLive reported at the end of June 2015 that the restaurant had closed in May after a March fire, and a Yellow Pages listing marks it closed; the news came via snippet, not a live load, so confidence lands in the middle. Notably, the family kept a separate sister operation, Abudanza Express, running in nearby Ludlow, so the name survived even as the Wilbraham room was lost to the fire.