Restaurant Stakeout · S2 E1
Trends Restaurant
Staten Island, New York
No longer open. It has closed.
The short answer
Foursquare lists the venue as "Permanently closed."
What happened on the show
On Staten Island, Degel took on Trends, where owner and chef Mike was carrying both the kitchen and the responsibility for a room drifting toward trouble. The stakeout ran on the same premise as always, hidden cameras across the floor and a patient read of how the place behaved when the boss was not visibly present. As broadcast, the surveillance let Degel confront Mike with a picture of his own operation from the outside, the gap between how he believed Trends ran and how it actually did. Degel's fixes focused on the systems and leadership the room was missing, the levers he pulls in nearly every episode. The visit followed the show's core logic, that an owner too buried in the day to day to see his own floor clearly is exactly the owner a stakeout is built to help, provided he can accept what the cameras show him.
After the cameras left
Trends has closed. Foursquare lists the Staten Island restaurant as permanently closed, and a 2012 SILive news piece references the venue's owner and chef in the background, though that article is context rather than closure evidence itself. The address on Nelson Avenue no longer carries the business. We hold the closure at moderate confidence given that the primary signal is an aggregator tag, but nothing points the other way toward continued operation.
Location
307 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY 10308
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Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.