restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 5, Episode 1 · Aired June 4, 2014
Buon Gusto Italian Restaurant
Las Vegas, Nevada
The trail goes cold here; we could not verify whether it is still open. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2014.
What happened after
Only address match found is "Buon Gusto Ristorante" in Henderson/Anthem NV (metro-area, not proper Las Vegas), with the most recent dated reference a 2019 Facebook post. No closure or current-open confirmation located after repeated attempts.
What happened on the show
The fifth season opened in Las Vegas with a father who had invested his nest egg so he and his son could run Buon Gusto, an Italian restaurant, together. Degel's stakeout was framed around that gamble and the family stakes riding on it. The hidden cameras captured the floor when management assumed no one was watching, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented picture of how the father and son actually operated the room. His confrontation used that evidence to press the pair on leadership and consistency, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The stakeout followed the show's recurring theme, that a family restaurant funded by a parent's savings carries an emotional weight that makes clear eyed operation harder, exactly the blind spot the cameras exist to expose.
After the cameras left
Buon Gusto's current status could not be confirmed. The only address match found was a similarly named Buon Gusto Ristorante in the Henderson and Anthem area, in the greater Las Vegas metro rather than proper Las Vegas, with the most recent dated reference a 2019 Facebook post. That leaves a same name and metro overlap risk unresolved, and no clear open or closed confirmation surfaced. We flag the restaurant as unverifiable and a candidate for a later re check.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.