barBar Rescue · Season 6, Episode 18 · Aired July 15, 2018
Blue Water
Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Renamed since the episode, and still in business. It now goes by Sydney an Australian Beach Club.
What happened after
Originally Blue Water Daiquiri & Oyster Bar; Bar Rescue renamed it Sydney an Australian Beach Club. Restaurant Guru's own listing tags the ORIGINAL 'Blue Water Daiquiri & Oyster Bar' name as permanently closed, while Sydney's appears as a live nearby listing (#3 of 74 clubs) with no closure tag -- signal is mixed on whether Sydney's itself is still trading.
What happened on the show
An enterprising immigrant with a track record of business successes may have bitten off more than he could chew when he bought the Blue Water, especially given his hands-off managerial approach. At Blue Water in Jacksonville Beach, the owner's usual formula faltered on a room he was not actively running, and for the recon Taffer brought in rapper Lil Jon and his team, who ran the recon while the rapper watched from outside. The rescue worked to pull the absentee owner into daily management and give the room a marketable identity. Taffer reopened the venue as Sydney, an Australian Beach Club, a themed rebrand meant to give the beach bar a distinctive concept, betting that an engaged owner and a coherent identity could steady a room his hands-off approach had left adrift.
After the cameras left
Blue Water, rebranded Sydney, an Australian Beach Club, has an uncertain fate. RestaurantGuru tags the original Blue Water Daiquiri and Oyster Bar name permanently closed, while the Sydney listing appears live nearby with no closure tag, a mixed signal, and conflicting secondary sources variously claim it is still open or closed by early 2019. None could be independently resolved this pass. Given the contradictory evidence, the status is recorded at low confidence as renamed, the current operation of Sydney's itself left genuinely unresolved pending a direct check.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.