barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 20 · Aired July 21, 2024
Nico's
Kingwood, Texas
It was renamed and continues to trade. It now goes by Kingwood Neapolitan Kitchen & Bar.
What happened after
Renamed "Kingwood Neapolitan Kitchen & Bar" (KNKB); the business's own Facebook page (still under the "nicosbarandgrill" handle) posts current content under the new name, e.g. a karaoke-night flyer branded KNKB.
What happened on the show
Nico's in Kingwood, Texas, came in for the show's standard intervention, under owners Greg and Emmy, who had opened the bar in 2007. The room went through Bar Rescue's usual arc, a recon of the operation, a confrontation over its problems, a stress test of the staff, and a renovation aimed at giving the struggling bar a stronger footing. The team reopened the venue as Kingwood Neapolitan Kitchen and Bar, a rebrand meant to reposition the room around a Neapolitan-pizza-and-bar 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 filming wrapped. A Kingwood bar under the same owners since 2007, it had years of equity to protect, which raised the stakes of the pizza-and-bar reset.
After the cameras left
Nico's is still operating, under a new name. Renamed Kingwood Neapolitan Kitchen and Bar, the room's own Facebook page, still under the old Nico's handle, posts current content under the new branding, including a karaoke-night flyer, which puts the status at medium confidence as renamed. Owners Greg and Emmy carried their bar forward under the Kingwood Neapolitan identity, landing this one among the renamed survivors of the ninth season, a Texas room that traded its old name for a pizza-and-bar concept and kept its doors open.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.