restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 2, Episode 8 · Aired October 24, 2012
Serata
Oyster Bay, New York
It closed and is no longer operating.
What happened after
OpenTable lists the restaurant as "Permanently Closed"; the business's Facebook page posted a farewell message: "It Is To Our Regret That We Are Closing Our Doors."
What happened on the show
Degel described the Oyster Bay stakeout as walking into a sideshow, with rowdy employees turning Serata's floor into something closer to a circus than a restaurant. The hidden cameras captured that chaos unobserved, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented case about a staff whose behavior had run out of anyone's control. His confrontation used that evidence to press the owner on discipline and the tone being set on the floor. Degel's fixes centered on restoring order, resetting standards, and installing the systems the room had been running without. The episode leaned on the format's recurring theme, that a restaurant takes on the character of its least disciplined staff when management stops paying attention, and that a stakeout's job is to show an owner just how far the room has drifted while they were not looking.
After the cameras left
Serata has closed. OpenTable lists the Oyster Bay restaurant as permanently closed, and the business's own Facebook page posted a farewell message announcing it was closing its doors. The Italian restaurant on Mill River Road is confirmed gone on strong, self reported evidence. A similarly named domain surfaced during the check but could not be tied to the same business, so it was not treated as a continuation.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.