Florence restaurant in Warren makes its final TV appearance in the two-hour Kitchen Nightmares finale, airing after the place closed shortly after Gordon Ramsay’s June 2025 visit. The episode gives viewers one last look at a long-running East 10 Mile Road fixture that is now listed as permanently closed.
June 2025 at East 10 Mile Road
Gordon Ramsay visited Firenze Restaurant and Pizzeria in June 2025, and Frank Rocca later texted that the sign on the door said the place was permanently closed. He also told the Free Press in June that the restaurant’s website read, “Firenze July 10, 1964 - June 21, 2025.”
The closure arrived fast enough to turn the episode into a coda rather than a comeback story. For viewers, that changes the frame: this is not a turnaround in progress, but a finished business history being packaged for prime-time release.
Frank Rocca and eight owners
Frank Rocca said the restaurant had eight owners during its six decades, starting with Maria and Pasquale Rocca. He texted, “John and wife Helen then became the 2nd group of owners from the original 5,” and added, “Lastly, John and Helen sold the restaurant to Lewis and Renee Dutton.”
That ownership chain matters because it shows how long the restaurant moved through family hands before ending with a permanent closure notice. The menu history followed the same arc: pizzas, salads, Italian food and steamed-in-the-oven fall-off-the-bone ribs kept the place recognizable even as the business changed hands.
Kitchen Nightmares on Tuesday, Sept. 15
The two-hour finale aired at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, and included Firenze Restaurant and Pizzeria in Warren alongside another metro Detroit restaurant on the same season. The episode turns the restaurant’s closing into the final beat of a national TV run, not a local announcement.
Firenze’s Facebook page had already tried to point the story in a different direction, posting “WOWWED!” while saying it would reopen with a freshened up menu. Weeks later, the door sign and the Google listing both showed the opposite result. What remains on screen is the hard part of the story: the gap between a reopen promise and a permanent close.
For anyone who knew the place as a Warren standby, the only real next step is to watch the finale as a record of how that last stretch ended. The episode answers where Firenze lands; it leaves open what exactly happened during Gordon Ramsay’s June 2025 visit that made the closure stick.
