barBar Rescue · Season 8, Episode 37 · Aired June 11, 2023
Latitudes Bar and Grill
Denver, North Carolina
Same spot, new identity after the show. It now goes by Latitudes Island Bar.
What happened after
Confirmed via official site and active Instagram.
What happened on the show
A former travel agent and her family were running a bar toward disaster. At Latitudes Bar and Grill in Denver, North Carolina, the owner's background in travel had not prepared her to run a bar, and the family operation was heading for a crash unless Taffer could intervene. The rescue worked to give the inexperienced owner and her family the fundamentals and a concept that played to the room's identity. Taffer reopened the venue as Latitudes Island Bar, leaning into a tropical, travel-flavored theme that nodded to the owner's past, betting that a fitting concept and a disciplined operation could steady a family bar headed for collapse, with the usual test of whether the changes would hold once the cameras left.
After the cameras left
Latitudes Island Bar stuck and is still operating. The room, confirmed via its official site and an active Instagram presence, continues at 2495 Highway 16 in Denver, North Carolina, which puts the status at high confidence as a renamed survivor. The former travel agent's family bar survived its rescue and carried the Latitudes Island identity forward, landing this one among the survivors of the eighth season, a North Carolina room, in the town of Denver rather than the Colorado city, that found its footing with a tropical concept suited to its owner's background.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.