Moss' Prime Rib & Spaghetti House

What happened after

owner's public message: "today we have been forced to make the unfortunate decision to close Moss' of Downtown Elyria. As of April 13th we will be closing the doors for the last time"; Ohio Secretary of State corporate record status "Cancelled"

Closure date on record: 2013-04-13

What happened on the show

The owners ran Moss' Prime Rib & Spaghetti House, a prime rib and spaghetti house in Elyria, which Irvine took on in the third season, on Broad Street. Detailed footage from the Moss' Prime Rib & Spaghetti House hour in Elyria did not survive, and the Wikipedia episode list has no summary. We can only outline how the show handled Moss' Prime Rib & Spaghetti House: Irvine tasting the prime rib and pasta that named the place, checking the Elyria kitchen, confronting the owner, then a two-day, small-budget rebuild of the Elyria room and a relaunch. No imagined plates or renovation details stand in for what the Moss' Prime Rib & Spaghetti House record in Elyria never kept. Honest thinness beats a manufactured recap, so for Moss' Prime Rib & Spaghetti House in Elyria we hold to what the record supports. Opening the third season on February 8, 2012, this downtown Elyria fixture is a case where only the format and the setting survive as fact.

After the cameras left

Moss' closed on April 13, 2013. The owner posted a public message saying the difficult decision had been forced on them and that the downtown Elyria doors would close for the last time that day, and Ohio Secretary of State corporate records list the entity as cancelled. The owner-quoted closure notice plus the state registry status put this at high confidence. A Broad Street restaurant that had anchored downtown Elyria did not make it far past its television rescue.