restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 5, Episode 7 · Aired January 23, 2013
Sapori D'Italia
Fountain Hills, Arizona
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 5, Episode 7 · January 23, 2013 · restaurant
revisited in S15E12 (2019-08-24)
What happened after
Still operating under original ownership (Gasper and Maria Manno) at original address; revisited by the show again in S15E12 (2019).
What happened on the show
Sapori D'Italia in Fountain Hills, Arizona, run by Gasper and Maria Manno, earned a fifth season makeover on the show's fixed terms of two days and a lean refit fund. The episode has no preserved Wikipedia synopsis, so the details of Irvine's work stay off this writeup. The Mannos proved unusually resilient. The restaurant still operates under the same original ownership at its original address, and the show thought enough of the story to revisit it years later in 2019. A stale holiday banner on the official site muddied a direct read, but 2026 dated reviews support ongoing operation, so we mark it open at medium confidence. Among fifth season entries, a family Italian spot still in the founders' hands more than a decade on is a quietly strong result.
After the cameras left
Sapori D'Italia is still operating under original owners Gasper and Maria Manno at its Fountain Hills address, and the series thought enough of it to return, revisiting the restaurant in season fifteen in 2019. The official site, fetched directly, showed a stale, undated holiday-closure banner, while 2026-dated Yelp reviews seen via search snippet support ongoing operation. Because the strongest current signal came from snippets rather than a directly fetched review, we hold the open status at medium confidence, but the overall picture is of a family Italian restaurant that endured.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.