barBar Rescue · Season 3, Episode 18 · Aired August 25, 2013
Libad's Bar & Grill
New Bedford, Massachusetts
No longer open. It has closed. The site is now home to 3 C's Bar and Grille (new restaurant, same address).
What happened after
On Brock Avenue; became 'Libad's Seaside Tavern,' which closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The property reopened as a new, unrelated restaurant, '3 C's Bar and Grille.'
What happened on the show
Two siblings were burning through their father's retirement money on a New England whaling-town bar, and the problems ran from the silly to the serious. A rickety mechanical bull sat alongside inexperienced bartenders who over-poured, and grief had made everything harder: a family loss had led the owners to close the kitchen entirely, cutting off a whole revenue stream in a room that could not afford it. Taffer's rescue of Libad's Bar and Grill in New Bedford worked to get the pouring under control, reopen that shuttered kitchen and steady a family running on fumes and heartbreak. The episode marked a first for the series, with the owner sitting alongside Taffer to watch the recon footage rather than seeing it after the fact. He reopened the room as Libad's Seaside Tavern, leaning into the coastal setting, the bet being that a disciplined bar, a working kitchen and a family pulled back from its grief could protect the retirement their father had staked on the place.
After the cameras left
Libad's Seaside Tavern eventually closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the property has since reopened as a new, unrelated restaurant, 3 C's Bar and Grille. Local New Bedford outlet fun107.com covered the changeover, a solid independent source that puts the closure and succession at high confidence. The father's retirement bar did not survive the pandemic, but the Brock Avenue address is pouring again under new ownership.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.