restaurant24 Hours to Hell and Back · Season 3, Episode 8 · Aired February 25, 2020
Bear's Den Pizza
Conway, Arkansas
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
On the show
Season 3, Episode 8 · February 25, 2020 · pizzeria
Also functions as a college bar. Aired same night as S3E9 (South Boulevard).
What happened after
Pizzeria and college bar at 235 Farris Rd continues operating; reviews as recent as 2025 confirm active operation.
What happened on the show
Conway, Arkansas, gave Ramsay a pizza restaurant that doubled as a college bar, and the surveillance found it in disarray for two very different reasons. One owner's drinking and violent outbursts were destabilizing the floor, while the other owner was too busy running a separate business to steady it. Bear's Den had once been a magnet for nearby college students and locals, but the recon showed terrible food and a fraying operation pushing it toward closure. Across the twenty four hours Ramsay confronted the behavior at the top, rebuilt the food, and delivered a room that could win the student crowd back. His argument was that a college bar lives or dies on energy and consistency, and that neither survives an owner who cannot control himself or one who is never there.
After the cameras left
Bear's Den Pizza came through and then some. As of our latest verification pass the pizzeria and college bar at 235 Farris Road was still operating, with reviews as recent as 2025 confirming active business. It leaned into food and drink specials and karaoke to pull the college crowd back, and within three months of the relaunch had managed a minor expansion. For a room Ramsay found sabotaged from the inside, sustained operation and growth mark Conway's college bar as one of the season's clear wins.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.