hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 16, Episode 5 · Aired July 8, 2021
Michelangelo's
North East England
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 16, Episode 5 · July 8, 2021 · hotel
revisited in Series 17 (2022-08-04); revisit location given as Near Newcastle
What happened after
Rooms, restaurant and bar, active Booking.com listing.
What happened on the show
Alex Polizzi was called in during series 16 to rescue Michelangelo's, a hotel and restaurant in the North East of England that Paolo Pieri ran with his brother Giacomo's help. A ten-bedroom hotel with a bar and an Italian restaurant set in several acres, run by two siblings, it fit a shape the show returned to often, a family operation where the relationship between the brothers ran alongside the business problems. The episode summary is brief on the specific faults, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a struggling brother-run Italian hotel and restaurant near Newcastle that sought the inspector's help in her sixteenth series. The show valued the case enough to return for a revisit in 2022.
After the cameras left
Michelangelo's is still trading, a hotel with rooms, a restaurant and a bar at Gateshead in the North East, appearing on Booking.com as of 2026. The evidence rests on that single platform with no official site independently confirmed, so the open status is held at medium confidence. The show returned for a revisit in series 17 in 2022, describing a ten-bedroom hotel, bar and Italian restaurant set in four acres near Newcastle, which supports continuity. Paolo and Giacomo Pieri's brother-run operation appears to have kept going as a going concern in the years since Polizzi's visit.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.