restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 13, Episode 1 · Aired March 9, 2016
Starlight Restaurant and Pizza
West Orange, New Jersey
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate. It trades today as Starlite Restaurant, Pizzeria & Bar.
On the show
Season 13, Episode 1 · March 9, 2016 · restaurant
episode title: "Ambush: Faded Star"
What happened after
Family pizzeria confirmed active via official site, current name spelled slightly differently.
What happened on the show
A family pizzeria running since 1961, Starlight Restaurant and Pizza in West Orange, New Jersey brought six decades of history to its thirteenth season visit. Irvine gave Starlight the show's standard two day makeover on the network's small refit fund, working to steady a long tenured neighborhood institution. Because the Wikipedia list carries no summary for the Starlight episode, its broadcast specifics are not rebuilt from guesswork. The good news is continuity, with a small twist: the business's own site, which proudly references its Restaurant Impossible makeover and its Family Owned and Operated Since 1961 heritage, now spells the name Starlite rather than Starlight, a stylistic variant rather than a true rename. On that basis Starlight comes across as open, a long running West Orange pizzeria still serving under a lightly restyled sign.
After the cameras left
Starlight, now spelled Starlite, appears to be open. A direct load found an active business site with menus, a note that the pizzeria has been family-owned and operated since 1961, and a reference to its Restaurant: Impossible makeover, but no explicit current-year date, and the Facebook page was last verified in 2021, which is stale, so we hold it a low-confidence read. The spelling shift is a variant of the same business, not a rename. the best read is that the West Orange pizzeria still trades, though a fresher source would firm it up.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.