restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 1 · Aired October 23, 2013
Mama Campisi's Restaurant
Saint Louis, Missouri
Still going, now under a new name. It now goes by Mama's on the Hill.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 1 · October 23, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Bring Mama Back"
What happened after
Continues operating under the name Mama's on the Hill (also historically known as formerly Oldani's) in St Louis's Italian Hill neighborhood.
What happened on the show
Mama Campisi's Restaurant, on The Hill in St. Louis, opened the show's seventh season, with Irvine applying his usual two day overhaul on the network's tight renovation budget. The Wikipedia entry carries no synopsis, so the particulars of the episode are not pieced together here. The encouraging news is continuity. The business carries on under owners Andrea and Lance Ervin as Mama's on the Hill, a name change from the Campisi's of the episode, and June 2026 dated reviews support that it is still serving in the neighborhood. Recorded as a survivor renamed rather than a closure, it joins the ranks of the seventh season entries that kept going, an Italian room in St. Louis's most Italian pocket that carried its televised reset forward under a fresh sign.
After the cameras left
Mama Campisi's continues to operate, now under the name Mama's on the Hill, in St. Louis's Italian Hill neighborhood under owners Andrea and Lance Ervin; the location was also historically known as Oldani's. June 2026-dated reviews seen via search snippet support ongoing operation, which puts the renamed-but-open status at high confidence. Rather than closing, the restaurant simply changed its name and kept serving the Hill, a survival outcome that sets it apart from the many season-seven businesses that did not last.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.