barBar Rescue · Season 4, Episode 50 · Aired April 24, 2016
George & Dragon
Phoenix, Arizona
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 4, Episode 50 · April 24, 2016 · bar
Revisited in Back to the Bar: Blue in the Frog Face (S6E11, aired 2018-05-20) as George & Dragon
What happened after
Same name retained since the S4E50 rescue. Official site is live with current hours (daily 11am-2am); family-owned English pub operating since 1995 at 4240 N Central Ave.
What happened on the show
Grief had sent the owner of a Phoenix British pub into a spiral of drinking away his profits and gambling toward ruin through weekly poker tournaments. At George and Dragon, the tragic loss of his mother had left him coping badly, and his brother called Taffer in to help him clean up his act before the family pub went under. The rescue leaned as much on the owner's personal recovery as on the operation, since the drinking and gambling were symptoms of unaddressed grief. Taffer kept the George and Dragon name through the makeover, a signal that a long-running family pub was worth preserving once its owner confronted what he had been running from, betting that helping a grieving man steady himself could steady the business along with him.
After the cameras left
George and Dragon is still open, name and legacy intact. The family-owned English pub, operating since 1995 at 4240 North Central Avenue, kept its original name through the rescue and the show's 2018 revisit, and its official site is live with current daily hours, which puts the open call at high confidence. The grieving owner pulled the pub back from the drinking and gambling that had threatened it, landing this one firmly among the survivors, a family business that outlasted its darkest stretch.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.