Ever wondered if those bars you see on Bar Rescue were able to turn it around or not?
Jon Taffer may know his way around the bar industry, but there’s only so much you can do with dysfunctional owners.
In our full Bar Rescue open or closed list, we take a look at the failure rate for the various bars he tried to turn on around as of 2022…
I’ll share the statistics at the top – keep reading to find detailed Bar Rescue where are they now updates for every single bar from the show.
At the bottom, I also have a Bar Rescue locations map that lets you view every single bar on an interactive map, along with the open or closed status for each bar.
Bar Rescue Open or Closed Statistics
Bar Rescue success rate
As of 2022, Jon Taffer’s Bar Rescue success rate is 48%. 103 of the bars from Bar Rescue are still open while the remaining 111 bars have closed as of 2022.
🟢 How Many Bars from Bar Rescue are still open?
As of 2022, 103 of the 214 bars featured on Bar Rescue are still open. That means that roughly 48% of the Bar Rescue bars are still successful today.
You can click the button below to view all of the Bar Rescue bars that are still open.
đź”´ Which Bars from Bar Rescue Failed?
As of 2022, 111 of the 214 bars featured on Bar Rescue have failed. That means that roughly 52% of the Bar Rescue bars closed after Jon Taffer’s visit.
You can click the button below to view all of the Bar Rescue bars that are closed.
👉 All Bar Rescue updates 2022
If you want to see an update for a specific bar featured on Bar Rescue, you can use the links below. We’ve divided the bars by season to make it easier for you to find the right bar.
Bar Rescue season 1 updates
Bar Rescue season 3 updates
- Spirits on Bourbon - OPEN
- Metal and Lace - CLOSED
- The Annex - OPEN
- The Brixton - CLOSED
- Solids and Stripes - OPEN
- The Kasbah - CLOSED
- Lona's City Limits Cantina - OPEN
- Dimples Karaoke - CLOSED
- Chilleen's On 17 - OPEN
- The Laugh Factory - CLOSED
- Bar 702 - OPEN
- Dual Ultra Nightclub - CLOSED
- Handlebar and Grill - OPEN
- The Comeback Sports Bar & Grill - CLOSED
- Gipsy - CLOSED
- MoonRunners Saloon - OPEN
- 22 Klicks - OPEN
- Libad’s Seaside Tavern - CLOSED
- Hammer and Ales - CLOSED
- St. Michelle's Beach Club - CLOSED
- Havana Cabana Bar and Grill - CLOSED
- The End - CLOSED
- Bacon Bar - CLOSED
- Bungalow Bar - OPEN
- Garnet Lounge - CLOSED
- MT Bottle - CLOSED
- Brew U - CLOSED
- Pit and Barrel - CLOSED
- Badlands Country Nightclub - CLOSED
- BARcode - CLOSED
- Houston Sports Hub - OPEN
- Sorties Tavern - OPEN
- Johnson County Line - OPEN
- O Face Bar - OPEN
- Agave Junction Cantina - CLOSED
- The Shot Exchange - OPEN
- Wildcatter Saloon - OPEN
- Pat's Cocktails A Mixology Bar - OPEN
- Taza Nightclub - CLOSED
- Thirsty's Roadside Bar - OPEN
Bar Rescue season 4 updates
- P's and Q's Auto Body - CLOSED
- SoYo Craft Bar - CLOSED
- 5th And Vine - CLOSED
- Tres Cuartos - CLOSED
- Jack's Fire Department - OPEN
- 2nd State Lounge - CLOSED
- Osteria Calabria - CLOSED
- The Dirty Rooster - CLOSED
- Nick's House - CLOSED
- Campbell’s Irish Pub - CLOSED
- Second Base Bar & Grill - OPEN
- Clear Bar - CLOSED
- Bonny and Read’s - OPEN
- Ele Lounge - CLOSED
- Hot Rock Bar and Grille - OPEN
- Stein Haus Brau and Brats - CLOSED
- Patriot House - OPEN
- 38th Floor Bar - CLOSED
- The Lister - CLOSED
- Oak Tavern - CLOSED
- Money Bar - CLOSED
- Over Easy Bar & Breakfast - OPEN
- Menara - OPEN
- Panic Room - CLOSED
- Pacific Coast Wine Bar - CLOSED
- BR Steak - OPEN
- The Study Lounge - OPEN
- La Luz Ultra Lounge - OPEN
- Way Point Saloon - OPEN
- The Royal Oaks - OPEN
- The Federal - OPEN
- Tim Owens' Traveler's Tavern - CLOSED
- Off Base Bar - OPEN
- Proving Ground Bar & Grill - CLOSED
- The Arena - CLOSED
- Back Beat Piano Bar - CLOSED
- Power Strip - CLOSED
- Boulder Lodge Bar and Grill - OPEN
- Crafted - OPEN
- Cayman Cove - CLOSED
- Pastimes on 4th - CLOSED
- Frankie T's - CLOSED
- George and Dragon - OPEN
- The Cajun Belle - CLOSED
- The Bridge: A Local’s Bar - OPEN
- The Aging Room at Cirivello’s - CLOSED
- The Beechwood - CLOSED
- Brick and Barley - OPEN
- Black Light District Rock & Roll Lounge - CLOSED
- Gallopin' Goose - OPEN
Bar Rescue season 5 updates
- LA Brew Co - CLOSED
- Champagne's Cafe - OPEN
- Derby's Bar and Grill - OPEN
- The Bradley - CLOSED
- The Victory Bar - CLOSED
- Forbidden Pub - CLOSED
- Fogline Bar and Grill - CLOSED
- R. Lee's - CLOSED
- Sam Jordan's - CLOSED
- The Tradewinds - OPEN
- Garrison Tavern - CLOSED
- The Roc Bar and Nightclub - CLOSED
- Triple Nickel Tavern - OPEN
- Downstairs Bar + Kitchen - CLOSED
- Summit House - CLOSED
- Press Box - OPEN
- The Second Line Co - CLOSED
- Big Mike's Sports Bar & Grill - OPEN
- Desi Romano’s Sports Bar and Grill - OPEN
- Casual Tap - CLOSED
- Pat's Courtyard Bar - CLOSED
- The Regan Lounge - CLOSED
- Tidal Bay Beach Bar - CLOSED
- Lake House Bar and Grill - OPEN
- Rhonda's A Neighborhood Bar - OPEN
- Lucky's Corner Pocket - CLOSED
Bar Rescue season 6 updates
- The Legacy Bar and Grille - CLOSED
- Robusto By Havana Mix - OPEN
- Theory A Vintage Parlor Bar - CLOSED
- Kings Duck Inn - CLOSED
- The Iron Horse - CLOSED
- Club Platinum - OPEN
- Cap N Odies - OPEN
- Copper Rocket Pub - OPEN
- The Cave Sports Bar - OPEN
- The Valley Saloon - OPEN
- No Name Saloon - OPEN
- Phish Tales - OPEN
- The Airliner - OPEN
- Sydney An Australian Beach Club - CLOSED
- El K'rajo Beach Bar - OPEN
- The Bayou - CLOSED
- The Dickson - CLOSED
- Britestar Tavern - OPEN
- Island Lounge - CLOSED
- Shibo - OPEN
- Madame Dalias’s Country Bar - OPEN
- Frozen Cactus - OPEN
- The Original Hideout - OPEN
- Gaddy Shack - CLOSED
- Baseline Bar - OPEN
- The Morgue - CLOSED
- Shattered Bar - CLOSED
- Halo Nightclub - CLOSED
- Sauced Sports Bar - OPEN
- The Tipsy Bull - CLOSED
- Das Brauhaus - CLOSED
- Thunderbird KSC Tavern - OPEN
- Stampede Saloon - CLOSED
- JB Taco - CLOSED
- Drunken Donkey - OPEN
- BCBG - OPEN
- The Pit Stop Bar and BBQ - CLOSED
- Water’s Edge Island Bar - OPEN
- The Prime Bar - CLOSED
- Malloy's - OPEN
- The Fifth - CLOSED
Bar Rescue season 7 updates
- Brannan Manor - OPEN
- Great 66 Entertainment Center - CLOSED
- Purser's Bar - CLOSED
- The Midway Tavern - OPEN
- VFW Post 6216 - OPEN
- Playa Island Bar - CLOSED
- Leia's - CLOSED
- The Roost - CLOSED
- Rob Ben's Restaurant & Lounge - OPEN
- Sierra Madre Cantina - OPEN
- Par Bar - OPEN
- Bottoms Up Bar and Grill - OPEN
- Silver Dollar - OPEN
- Renz Social House - OPEN
- Gaslamp Social - CLOSED
- Brenda's Inferno - CLOSED
Bar Rescue season 8 updates
- Paradise Cantina - OPEN
- Capo's Restaurant and Speakeasy - OPEN
- Cork and Thorn - OPEN
- La Casona Bar and Grill - CLOSED
- Nevada Brew Works - OPEN
- Badlands Saloon - OPEN
- VFW Post 10054 - OPEN
- Griff's Bar & Billiards - OPEN
- Ninja Karaoke - OPEN
- The Billy Bar - OPEN
- The Roost - OPEN
- Stadium Club Bar & Grill - OPEN
- Ace's A Sporting Bar - CLOSED
- Char Bar and BBQ - OPEN
- G Willickers Pub - OPEN
- Tropica Bar and Cafe - OPEN
- JJ's Chicken Bar - OPEN
- Jimmy's - OPEN
- The Loft Elevated Bar + Food - OPEN
- Jerry's Dockside Bar and Grill - OPEN
- The Crowne Irish Pub - OPEN
- Murphy's Arcade - OPEN
Bar Rescue season 9 updates
Bar Rescue locations map
Below, you can find our full Bar Rescue locations map, which shows the status and location for every bar from the show.
I’ve used green to mark Bar Rescue bars that are still open, while red means that the bar has closed since the episode aired.
You can also use the filters on the side to only view the bars from a specific season.
That wraps up our Bar Rescue updates for 2022. While around half of the bars have closed and there are plenty of Bar Rescue failures, there are also a lot of Bar Rescue success stories and Jon Taffer has one of the best success rates of any reality TV rescue show.
If you have any thoughts or comments that you’d like to share with me, please let me know in the comments below.
If you want to share your thoughts about a specific Bar Rescue episode, please go to the full update for that episode and leave your comment there.
Thanks for reading!
You are missing a few bars. Is there are reason or did you just forget some?
Which bars? I don’t see any missing. If you let me know the bar I will add it, but I should have them all covered now. The only one I didn’t cover is the UNLV college episode because he didn’t really rescue a “bar” in that.
The Cajun belle for one. A lot of season 4/5 are missing. I’m watching it now on Paramount+
Ahh I see. I forgot to add it to the main list on this page, but it’s published on the site:
https://realitytvupdates.com/bar-rescue/grinders-cajun-belle/
I just went through and made sure all of the episodes are now listed on this page.
Thanks!
I can’t find the 1st show on Extremes/Second Base, but I’m reading about the Second Base rescue now. Something titled Bikini Bust?
I am really enjoying this site, reading along or checking after I finish an episode!
Glad you like it! I only put up one post for each bar, even if the bar was featured twice. So there’s only one page for Extremes/Second Base even though there were two rescues at it:
https://realitytvupdates.com/bar-rescue/second-base/
I need to update that page though as the update is pretty short and not very detailed right now. I’ll add it to the list and make it more detailed.
Any thoughts on why so many bars close after taffer leaves? He and his crew do wonderful rescues, train bartenders and cooks. Get owners off the booze while working, clean the bars…. Yet almost half fail after all the help. Any thoughts on why?
First off, a lot of these bars are already deep in debt. So even if Taffer fixes everything and the bar is starting to be profitable, it still might not be enough to escape the debt.
Second, a lot of owners have ditched Jon’s advice/concept after he leaves, which usually has poor results. Taffer can’t force them to keep doing things his way and some owners are beyond saving.
Third, Covid-19 killed a decent number of bars that had been successful after Taffer’s visit until the health restrictions.
Finally, in a few cases, Jon Taffer really did get it wrong and put in a bad concept. Or the Bar Rescue producers didn’t get the proper permits and it screwed over the bar. Those cases are a really small percentage, though. Most of the failures were for the first few reasons.
Thanks for the site! Fun to follow up on some of these places we have been to and see what some of these crazy owners have done.
Glad you like it! Thanks for the kind words.
What is the percentage of bars closed after sticking with Tapper’s changes? To say 52% closed is a misleading statistic. How many of those 52% fell back into their failing ways after Tapper’s crew left? That would be a more accurate representation. I’m willing to bet the bars that embraced change, education and technology are thriving and owners that slid back into their filing comfort zones are the majority of closures.
I think that gets subjective because not that many bars stick 100% with Jon Taffer’s changes – it’s often a mix of the old with the new. E.g. maybe they keep Taffer’s name but they still bring back some/all of their old menu.
I also haven’t really noticed any trends either way. There are plenty of bars that kept Taffer’s name/concept and still ended up closing (and plenty that went back to their old ways and closed, of course).
A lot of times the bars are in so much debt that even if they totally embrace Taffer’s changes it might not be enough to save them.