restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 5, Episode 4 · Aired June 25, 2014
Sonrisa Grill
Las Vegas, Nevada
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Active Yelp listing (3.5/5, 1,070 reviews) and TripAdvisor (4/5, 274 reviews) for the lakeside Mexican restaurant in Montelago Village.
What happened on the show
Degel's stakeout of Sonrisa Grill carried a personal stake for the owner, framed by the episode around a woman hoping to save the lakeside Mexican restaurant and reunite her family in the process. 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 picture of how the room 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 recurring shape, using surveillance to show an owner, whose hopes for the restaurant ran well beyond the balance sheet, exactly how her floor performed when no one at the top was steering.
After the cameras left
Sonrisa Grill is open. Active Yelp and TripAdvisor listings, both carrying large review counts and solid ratings, describe the lakeside Mexican restaurant in the Lake Las Vegas and Montelago Village area at a Via Brianza address in Henderson. The show era entity lists the city as Las Vegas, consistent with the show's loose metro labeling. The current listings and review activity make this a high confidence survivor, a scenic Vegas area restaurant still serving.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.