restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 2, Episode 9 · Aired November 14, 2012
Ariana Restaurant
Huntington, New York
It is still up and running.
What happened after
Active OpenTable reservation listing; Facebook page shows ongoing engagement (309 likes, 195 check-ins).
What happened on the show
The Huntington stakeout turned on a family that could not, or would not, hold its own members accountable. At Ariana, Degel's hidden cameras did their usual work, capturing the floor when the owner assumed no one was measuring the crew, and as broadcast the footage built a case that too much family and not enough business was dragging the room down. His confrontation pressed the owner to treat relatives like employees where the operation demanded it, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The episode fit one of the show's most durable patterns, in which loyalty to family becomes the very thing choking a restaurant, and the stakeout exists to force an owner to separate love for his people from the running of his business.
After the cameras left
Ariana is open. An active OpenTable reservation listing carries the Huntington restaurant, and its Facebook page shows ongoing engagement with hundreds of likes and check ins at the Main Street address. The signals came largely through search results rather than a direct fetch, so we hold the verdict at moderate confidence, but they point consistently to an operating restaurant. Another Long Island stop that outlasted its stakeout.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.