barBar Rescue · Season 4, Episode 8 · Aired November 23, 2014
Dirty Rooster
Antioch, Illinois
Its status today is unclear. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2014.
On the show
Season 4, Episode 8 · November 23, 2014 · bar
Revisited in Back to the Bar: Meathead-to-Head (S4E46, aired 2016-03-27) as Dirty Rooster
What happened after
Reported as CLOSED on a MapQuest listing (end of 2015 closure per non-citable tracker narrative, with an unconfirmed interim rename attempt to 'Lake Marie Lodge'), but the specific MapQuest URL was not captured before the search outage.
What happened on the show
Rob had become the wild card at an ambitious bar financed by his friend and co-owner Scott. Drunk and disorderly, giving away liquor and behaving recklessly, Rob ran unchecked while Scott and co-owner Steve did nothing to stop him. Taffer's recon team, posing as a birthday group, took a challenge to see how many drinks they could wring out of Rob for five dollars, and walked out having collected a string of free shots without paying a cent. Appalled, Taffer refused to even enter, sending his experts in to break the news while the owners fought and Rob rambled off to bed. In the stress test he benched Rob in the kitchen to sober up, where he actually performed well, while Scott and Steve floundered running a bar neither knew how to operate, exposing exactly where the Dirty Rooster's real weaknesses lay.
After the cameras left
Dirty Rooster's current status could not be verified. A MapQuest listing reportedly tagged the Antioch bar closed, with a non-citable tracker narrative placing the closure around the end of 2015 and an unconfirmed interim rename to Lake Marie Lodge, but the specific MapQuest URL was never captured before search outages set in, and repeated attempts across the endpoints hit rate limits and CAPTCHAs on later passes. With no independently citable confirmation of the closure or the rename, the status is honestly held as unverifiable, the MapQuest lead left open for a cleaner follow-up.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.