barRestaurant Stakeout · Season 3, Episode 12 · Aired June 19, 2013
Michael's Roscommon House
Belleville, New Jersey
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Irish/Italian-American sports bar and restaurant, family-owned since Nov 1982; active Yelp listing (4.1/5, 175 reviews) with current hours (11am-2am daily) and Uber Eats delivery.
What happened on the show
Degel answered a call from the owner of Michael's Roscommon House in Belleville, an Irish and Italian American sports bar and restaurant, and the episode framed the stakeout around a father's example and the standard it set. The hidden cameras did the show's usual work, capturing the floor when management assumed no one was measuring the crew, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented case about leadership and consistency. His confrontation used that evidence to press the owner on the kind of operator he wanted to be, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The stakeout followed the format's recurring theme, using the cameras to show an owner the gap between the restaurant he believed he was running and the one the feed actually recorded.
After the cameras left
Michael's Roscommon House is open. The Irish and Italian American sports bar and restaurant, family owned since 1982, carries an active Yelp listing with a solid rating across many reviews, current daily hours running to 2am, and delivery through Uber Eats at the Joralemon Street address in Belleville. The combination of a long history and current listings makes this a high confidence survivor, still serving decades after it opened and years after its stakeout.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.