Restaurant: Impossible · S5 E10
Maniaci's Italian Bistro
Mohnton, Pennsylvania
This one did not make it. The business closed in 2014. The site is now home to Casa Cortes Mexican Restaurant.
The short answer
Closed less than three weeks after a March 2014 blog post about it went live; space now houses Casa Cortes Mexican Restaurant (opened 2025).
What happened on the show
Maniaci's Italian Bistro in Mohnton, Pennsylvania received the show's standard fifth season treatment, Irvine compressing a full reset into two days on a capped remodeling budget. No episode synopsis survives on Wikipedia, so the specifics of the visit are not detailed here. The ending arrived quickly. A local Berks County food blog, independent of any rescue show tracker, noted the bistro closed less than three weeks after its own March 2014 post about the place, a fast fade that put Maniaci's among the season's short lived saves. The room did not stay dark forever: it now houses Casa Cortes Mexican Restaurant, which opened in 2025, so the address found new life a decade later even though the Italian concept Irvine tried to steady did not make it far past filming.
After the cameras left
Maniaci's closed less than three weeks after a March 2014 update post about it went live, per Berks County Eats, an independent local food blog that added a direct note to the same post. The space now houses Casa Cortes Mexican Restaurant, which opened in 2025. An independent local blog carrying the update note, rather than a reality-show tracker, puts the closure at high confidence. A family Italian bistro gave way, and after a long vacancy its Mohnton address became a Mexican restaurant.
Location
Mohnton, Pennsylvania
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Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.