restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 22, Episode 12 · Aired March 16, 2023
Franco Di Roma
Middletown, New York
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 22, Episode 12 · March 16, 2023 · restaurant
episode title: "A Family Divided"
What happened after
Official website (francodiroma.com) and Facebook page live; family-owned Italian restaurant operating since 2001, 4.3/5 on Tripadvisor.
What happened on the show
The surviving record is thin, so we describe only what holds up. Franco Di Roma is a family-owned Italian restaurant in Middletown, New York, operating since 2001, and season 22 featured it under the title A Family Divided. That title points to the kind of internal family conflict the show often centers on, but the Wikipedia list preserves no synopsis, and we will not invent the specifics. The format is the safe frame here: the series' two-day, small-budget intervention premise, and we assume nothing past it. The concrete, verifiable facts are the cuisine and the tenure, a family Italian restaurant that had already been part of Middletown for two decades, with a divided family, per the episode title, the fault line any fix would have to address.
After the cameras left
Franco Di Roma is still open. Its official site and Facebook page are live, and the family-owned Italian restaurant, operating since 2001 at 357 Route 211 E, carries a 4.3 on TripAdvisor. On the live listings we log it open, medium confidence, at the latest pass. For a family Italian restaurant the episode framed as divided, keeping the Middletown business open two decades in and past the makeover is the survival the visit was chasing.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.