barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 12 · Aired May 12, 2024
Los Cocos
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
Caribbean restaurant/bar retains original name; active Facebook and Instagram accounts, TripAdvisor listing.
What happened on the show
Los Cocos in Port St. Lucie came in for the show's standard intervention. The Caribbean restaurant and bar went through Bar Rescue's usual arc, a recon of the customer experience, a confrontation over the operation's problems, a stress test of the staff, and a renovation aimed at giving the room a stronger footing, in an episode themed around a crime-scene investigation of its troubles. Taffer's team proposed reopening the venue as Three Tides, a rebrand meant to sharpen the concept, betting that a clearer identity and a disciplined operation could steady the struggling Caribbean spot. The reveal handed the owners a new direction, with the familiar test of whether the changes would hold once the cameras left Florida. A Port St. Lucie Caribbean spot with a devoted following, it needed the discipline and clearer identity the rescue aimed to bring rather than a new crowd.
After the cameras left
Los Cocos is still operating, under its original name. The Caribbean restaurant and bar continues at 269 Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard, with active Facebook and Instagram accounts and a TripAdvisor listing, which puts the open call at medium confidence. The room kept its Los Cocos identity rather than adopting the Three Tides rebrand proposed on air, landing this one among the survivors of the ninth season, a Florida Caribbean spot that held onto both its name and its doors in the months after the episode aired.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.