barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 22 · Aired August 4, 2024
Coaches Pub
Houston, Texas
It was renamed and continues to trade. It now goes by Midtown Pub.
What happened after
Renamed "Midtown Pub." Official site confirms active hours, online ordering (DoorDash), reservations, and recent customer reviews.
What happened on the show
Coaches Pub in Houston came in for the show's standard intervention. The room 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 pub a stronger footing. The team reopened the venue as Midtown Pub, a rebrand built around a steak-and-sports concept fitting its Midtown Houston location, betting that a sharper identity and a disciplined operation could steady the business. The reveal handed the owners a new direction, with the familiar test of whether the changes would hold once the cameras left Texas and the day-to-day fell back to the owners to sustain on their own. A Midtown Houston pub in a competitive corridor, it needed a clear concept to stand out, and a steak-and-sports identity gave it exactly that.
After the cameras left
Midtown Pub stuck and is still operating. Renamed from Coaches Pub, the room's official site confirms active hours, online ordering, reservations and recent customer reviews at 2204 Louisiana Street in Houston, which puts the status at high confidence as a renamed survivor. The pub carried the Midtown identity forward and kept its doors open, landing this one firmly among the survivors of the ninth season, a Texas room that traded its coaching theme for a steak-and-sports concept that held in a competitive Midtown Houston market.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.