Anna Maria's

What happened after

phone disconnected, not open at 8pm on a Wednesday, county records showed the property sold; owners cited family health issues; closed within days of Scranton Times-Tribune coverage

Closure date on record: 2013-09/10

What happened on the show

Robert Irvine took on Anna Maria's, a Italian restaurant in Dunmore, during the third season, on Drinker Street. We found no scene-by-scene account of Anna Maria's in Dunmore, and Wikipedia's episode list stays silent on the details. The dependable sequence at Anna Maria's is what we can state: Irvine put the Italian cooking to the test, toured the Dunmore kitchen, forced the family to reckon, and rebuilt the Dunmore room on a modest budget. The particular dishes and design decisions at Anna Maria's in Dunmore were never recorded, so we leave those blanks. So the format and the Dunmore location are what this Anna Maria's entry can genuinely assert, and no more. Owner Jack Sileo, Sr. died a month after the reopening, and the episode was dedicated to his memory, a fact the record does preserve.

After the cameras left

Anna Maria's closed within roughly a year of the show, around September or October 2013. The signs were unmistakable: the phone was disconnected, the restaurant was dark at eight on a Wednesday, and county records showed the property had sold, with the owners citing family health issues. The closing followed within days of coverage by the Scranton Times-Tribune, and WNEP-TV reported it as well. Two local-news sources put this at high confidence. The death of owner Jack Sileo, Sr. a month after the reopening preceded the end.