barBar Rescue · Season 5, Episode 22 · Aired July 2, 2017
Casual Tap
Chicago, Illinois
This one did not make it. The business closed.
What happened after
Per Wikipedia's Bar Rescue season 5 episode list (S5E22): "Despite being closed, the owner plans on re-opening the bar in the near future once he gets done dealing with family issues." No confirmation found that the reopening occurred.
What happened on the show
A neighborhood bar had already gone dark, and Taffer's task was to reignite the passion of the burnt-out firefighter who owned it. At Casual Tap in Chicago, the challenge was as much about a man who had lost his drive as about a business that had stopped operating, and the rescue leaned on rekindling the owner's investment in a room he had let go quiet. Taffer worked to give the shuttered bar a reason to reopen and its firefighter owner a reason to care again, betting that reviving the person could revive the place, since a closed bar cannot be fixed without an owner willing to unlock the doors and fight for it once more. A closed bar is the hardest rescue of all, since there is no service to observe and no crowd to test, leaving only the owner's willingness to reopen as the thing to work with.
After the cameras left
Casual Tap's status is uncertain. Per Wikipedia's episode list, the bar remained closed after the rescue, with the owner planning to reopen once he finished dealing with family issues, but no confirmation that the reopening ever happened was found. The exact closure date and the outcome of the planned reopening both remain unconfirmed, resting on a single episode-list footnote. On balance the room is recorded as closed at medium confidence, with the owner's stated intention to reopen noted but unverified, the firefighter's bar left in limbo.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.