barBar Rescue · Season 8, Episode 24 · Aired February 26, 2023
JJ's Sports Bar & Grill
Highland, California
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
What happened after
Sports bar / Mexican restaurant with active current promotions (Taco Tuesday).
What happened on the show
A family-owned bar was struggling because of the owner's on-the-job behavior. At JJ's Sports Bar and Grill in Highland, California, the owner's conduct while running the room was the core problem, undermining a family business from behind its own bar, and Taffer watched the recon alongside the owner's wife while bringing in a marquee recon crew of Maria Menounos, Keven Undergaro and the wrestling duo Trinity Fatu and Mercedes Varnado. The rescue worked to correct the owner's behavior and steady the family operation. Taffer reopened the venue as JJ's Sports Cafe, a modernized take on the old name, betting that a chastened owner and a sharper concept could keep a family bar from being undone by the very person running it, with the usual test of whether the changes would stick.
After the cameras left
JJ's is still operating. The room continues as a sports bar and Mexican restaurant at 7955 Webster Street in Highland, with active current promotions like Taco Tuesday, which puts the open call at high confidence. The family bar survived the owner's on-the-job behavior and kept going, landing this one among the survivors of the eighth season, a California room that steadied itself after the conduct behind the bar had nearly sunk a business the whole family depended on.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.