restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 7 · Aired December 4, 2013
Mike LaSusa's Italian Restaurant
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
It has since closed.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 7 · December 4, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Unfixable Family"
What happened after
Yelp listing (seen via search snippet) states 'Yelpers report this location has closed.'
What happened on the show
Mike LaSusa's Italian Restaurant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin had its seventh season episode on the series, Irvine working the show's compressed schedule and small renovation budget to steady another struggling Italian room. No episode summary survives on Wikipedia, so the specifics of the makeover stay off this writeup. The restaurant later closed, with a Yelp listing noting that patrons report the location has shut, which anchors the status. Pinning the exact date proved difficult: a late 2015 Facebook post referenced five years in business, implying it was still open then, but no firm closing date surfaced. We treat it as closed at medium confidence, honest about the soft timing, one more seventh season entry whose fresh start eventually gave way rather than holding on for the long run.
After the cameras left
Mike LaSusa's has since closed. A Yelp listing, read through a search snippet, notes that the location has closed, and no reopening under the name turned up afterward. Fixing the exact date is harder: a 2015 Facebook post referenced five years in business, which puts the restaurant as still trading that October, so the end came sometime later. Because the closed status leans on a snippet rather than a directly loaded page, confidence lands in the middle. What is plain enough is that the Oak Creek Italian spot no longer trades.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.