restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 3, Episode 2 · Aired March 20, 2013
Latin Kitchen
Bronx, New York
We could not confirm its current status.
What happened after
No reliable current signal found either way. Puerto Rican restaurant with a Yelp presence (2.5 stars) but no closure or recent-activity confirmation located after repeated search attempts.
What happened on the show
Degel answered a call from the Latin Kitchen in the Bronx, a Puerto Rican restaurant the episode framed around a mother and son dynamic that had tangled the operation. The hidden cameras did the show's usual work, recording the floor when management assumed no one was measuring the crew, and as broadcast the footage handed Degel a documented case about the leadership and family friction holding the place back. His confrontation used that evidence to press the owner on authority and follow through, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The stakeout followed the format's recurring theme, that a restaurant run by family will only tighten up once the people who share the name agree on who is actually in charge of the floor.
After the cameras left
The Latin Kitchen's current status could not be confirmed. The show connection is clear, but after repeated searches no reliable signal about the restaurant's present operation surfaced. A Yelp presence exists for the Puerto Rican spot on East Tremont Avenue, with a modest rating, but nothing confirmed either recent activity or closure. We flag the Bronx restaurant as unverifiable and a candidate for a future re check rather than assert a status the evidence does not support.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.