barBar Rescue · Season 4, Episode 1 · Aired October 5, 2014
Artful Dodger
Huntington, New York
Same spot, new identity after the show. It now goes by Repeal XVIII.
What happened after
Renamed 'Repeal XVIII' cocktail bar, confirmed via direct fetch of the official site (repealxviii.com), which shows the exact matching address (30 New Street, Huntington, NY 11743), live posted hours (Tue-Sun), an active online cocktail/beer/food-ordering system, and an events/live-music calendar. This overturns the prior closed/'auto-body conversion' assumption: 'P's and Q's Auto Body' was a themed bar name at this address, not a literal auto-body shop, and the venue continued operating and was renamed again to Repeal XVIII (secondary sources say ~Oct 2018, bartender Michael Matarazzo). CURRENT open status and current name are primary-source confirmed via the official site; the exact rename date/lineage remains secondary-sourced.
What happened on the show
A fledgling Huntington nightclub had turned itself into a hazard through one bad decision: an 18-and-over policy that flooded the room with unruly teenagers, in a space already dirty enough to attract fruit flies and mosquitoes. At Artful Dodger, Taffer had to teach the owners how to promote their business and lift their decor and standards while unwinding the age policy that was drowning the place in trouble. The rescue worked to professionalize an inexperienced ownership group and give the room a coherent identity, reopening it under a themed new name, P's and Q's Auto Body, an automotive-styled bar concept, not a literal garage. The bet was that owners taught real promotion and real standards, freed of the teenage crowd their own policy had invited in, could turn a young club's early misfire into a going concern.
After the cameras left
Artful Dodger's address is alive and well, now trading as Repeal XVIII, a cocktail bar. A direct fetch of the official site confirms live operation at the exact spine address, 30 New Street, with posted hours, an active ordering system and an events calendar, and a Yelp listing corroborates. This overturns an earlier assumption that the room had closed or been converted: the P's and Q's Auto Body name was a themed bar, not a real body shop, and the venue continued and was later renamed again to Repeal XVIII. Confidence is medium, the current business primary-source confirmed.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.