barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 35 · Aired May 18, 2025
Jon's Goodtime Bar & Grill
Inkster, Michigan
We could not confirm its current status.
What happened after
A community Facebook group commenter states the bar "is renamed Brother's Smokehouse I think... waiting on some final paperwork", an uncertain, third-party, in-progress claim, not the business's own announcement. No independent post-rename confirmation (official page, website, or local news) could be located despite repeated search attempts. Older directory listings (RestaurantJi, TripAdvisor, USA Restaurants) still show the original "Jon's Goodtime" name/ratings but are undated relative to the 2025-05 air date.
What happened on the show
Jon's Goodtime Bar and Grill in Inkster, Michigan, opened in 2020 by owner Derrick with friends Eric and Andre, came in for the show's standard intervention. The room went through Bar Rescue's usual arc of scrutiny, confrontation, a stress test and a renovation aimed at giving the young bar a stronger footing. The team proposed reopening the venue as Brothers Smokehouse Bar and BBQ, a rebrand meant to reposition the room around a barbecue concept, 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 Michigan and the day-to-day fell back to them. A young Inkster bar opened in 2020, it had room to define itself, and a barbecue concept offered a distinctive identity to build toward.
After the cameras left
Jon's Goodtime Bar and Grill's current status could not be verified. A community Facebook commenter stated the bar was being renamed Brothers Smokehouse while final paperwork was pending, an uncertain, third-party, in-progress claim rather than the business's own announcement, and no independent confirmation from an official page, website or local news could be located despite repeated searches. Older directory listings still show the original name. Because the rename claim is speculative and the current operating status is unclear, it is honestly recorded as unverifiable, flagged for a fresh pass.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.