Restaurant Stakeout · S3 E13
Barzola
Flushing, Queens, New York
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
The short answer
Ecuadorian seafood/ceviche restaurant, "Serving Since 1987"; official site barzola1987.com direct-fetched showing active hours, menu, and online ordering (phone 718-205-6900 matches the Flushing/Jackson Heights-area listing).
What happened on the show
The Flushing stakeout put Degel inside Barzola, an Ecuadorian seafood and ceviche restaurant, with the episode framing a blunt question about what the kitchen was actually serving. His hidden cameras captured the floor in its natural state, and as aired the footage gave Degel a documented picture of the operation from the outside. His confrontation used that evidence to press the owners on consistency and the food coming out of the kitchen, while his fixes brought the familiar reset of systems and standards. The stakeout leaned on the format's core claim, using surveillance to close the distance between how the owners believed their Queens restaurant ran and how it truly did once no one behind the counter knew the boss was watching the feed.
After the cameras left
Barzola is open. The Ecuadorian seafood and ceviche restaurant, serving since 1987, has an official site that was directly fetched showing active hours, a full menu, and online ordering, with a phone number matching the Flushing area listing. The site also lists a second Long Island City location, and Yelp showed a recently updated page with hundreds of reviews. This is a high confidence survivor, a Queens mainstay still going strong.
Location
92-12 37th Avenue (Jackson Heights/Flushing border area), Queens, NY
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Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.