Bar Rescue · S5 E20
Desi Romano's Sports Bar & Grill
Chalmette, Louisiana
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
The short answer
Per Wikipedia's Bar Rescue season 5 episode list (S5E20), the bar "kept its original name." An independent Facebook business page was located this pass (name/address match: 3809 Paris Rd, Chalmette, LA 70043); a a competitor tracker claim of continued operation (2024-03) was found but excluded as a banned tracker source and not used as evidence.
What happened on the show
After suffering a stroke, a bar owner was on the verge of losing his family legacy. At Desi Romano's Sports Bar and Grill in Chalmette, Louisiana, the owner's health crisis had left the business he had built vulnerable, and Taffer arrived to help preserve a family legacy at risk, with the owners of the earlier-rescued Spirits on Bourbon brought in for the recon and their bar used as a training site. The rescue worked to shore up an operation destabilized by the owner's medical setback and secure the room for the family. Taffer kept the Desi Romano's name through the makeover, a signal that the family legacy was worth preserving intact, betting that stabilizing the business could protect what a stroke had put in jeopardy.
After the cameras left
Desi Romano's appears to still be operating, though the evidence is thin. It kept its original name through the rescue, and an independent Facebook business page matching the name and the 3809 Paris Road address in Chalmette was located, which supports ongoing operation but was captured via snippet rather than directly fetched. A banned-tracker claim of continued operation was excluded per the no-pillaging gate. On the strength of the independent Facebook page alone, the open call rests at low confidence, the family legacy presumed intact but not firmly reconfirmed.
Location
3809 Paris Rd, Chalmette LA 70043
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Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.