barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 28 · Aired March 30, 2025
Backroads Bar & Grill
Holly, Michigan
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Family-owned bar retains original name on Facebook (1,960 likes) and Chamber of Commerce listing, despite an unconfirmed banned-tracker-only claim of a rename to "Taylor's Tavern Bar & Kitchen."
What happened on the show
Backroads Bar and Grill in Holly, Michigan, a family-owned room under Gary and Tina Helton since 2015, came in for the show's standard intervention. The bar went through Bar Rescue's usual arc, a recon of the operation, a confrontation over its problems, a stress test of the staff, and a renovation aimed at giving the struggling family bar a stronger footing. The show attempted a rename during the makeover, betting that a sharper concept and a disciplined operation could steady the room. The reveal handed the owners a new direction, with the familiar test of whether the changes, and any new name, would take hold once the cameras left Michigan and the family was left to run it. A family-owned Holly bar under the Heltons since 2015, it had a decade of local goodwill worth protecting through the reset the show forced.
After the cameras left
Backroads Bar and Grill is still operating, under its original name. The family-owned room retains its name on Facebook, with nearly 2,000 likes, and a chamber-of-commerce listing under Gary and Tina Helton at 15217 Apollo Drive in Holly, which puts the open call at medium confidence. An unconfirmed claim of a rename to Taylor's Tavern Bar and Kitchen traced only to a banned tracker and was not adopted. The family bar kept the physical improvements but held its original identity, landing this one among the survivors of the ninth season.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.