restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 5, Episode 12 · Aired September 3, 2014
Brookside Grill
Highland Mills, New York
Yes. This one is still open.
What happened after
Multiple current directory listings (Yellow Pages, Chamber of Commerce, MenuPix) show "Open Now" status with posted daily hours (12pm-9pm).
What happened on the show
Degel's stakeout of the Brookside Grill in Highland Mills was framed around reigniting a room that had lost its spark, treated almost like a grand reopening. The hidden cameras did the show's usual work, capturing the floor when management assumed no one was watching, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented picture of how the grill actually operated. His confrontation used that evidence to press the owner on leadership and consistency, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The stakeout fit the format's core logic, using surveillance to show an owner the gap between the lively, thriving grill they hoped to run and the operation the cameras actually recorded, then using Degel's resets to try to close it.
After the cameras left
Brookside Grill is open. Multiple current directory listings show the grill as open with posted daily hours at the State Route 32 address in Highland Mills. A 2014 corporate record once listed the business entity as dormant, but that is a stale registration status contradicted by the live directory listings, not a current operational signal. We hold the open verdict at moderate confidence given the reliance on directory data, but the evidence points to an operating grill.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.