restaurantRestaurant Stakeout · Season 5, Episode 10 · Aired August 13, 2014
Villa Monaco Restaurant
West Islip, New York
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Active Facebook page ("Long Island's Finest Italian Restaurant, Villa Monaco") with the most recent confirmed activity dated October 2024.
What happened on the show
A daughter's fear that the family restaurant might not survive drove Degel's stakeout of Villa Monaco in West Islip, an Italian restaurant the next generation worried was heading toward extinction. 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 family on leadership and consistency, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The stakeout fit the format's recurring theme, using surveillance to show a family, anxious about losing a restaurant they cared deeply about, exactly how the floor performed when no one at the top was steering it.
After the cameras left
Villa Monaco is open. An active Facebook page, billing it as Long Island's finest Italian restaurant, carries confirmed activity as recent as October 2024 for the Montauk Highway address in West Islip. A second, less active Facebook page for the same address also surfaced. The confirmed recent activity makes this a moderate to solid open verdict. The family Italian restaurant the daughter feared losing survived, still serving West Islip years after the stakeout.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.