barBar Rescue · Season 8, Episode 32 · Aired April 30, 2023
Papa Joe's Sports Bar
Moreno Valley, California
Current status unconfirmed after an independent check. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2023.
What happened after
We have not been able to confirm what happened to this business since the episode aired. If you know its current status, we would like to hear from you.
What happened on the show
The passing of one of the owners had left a family in disarray at a Moreno Valley pizza and sports bar. At Papa Joe's Sports Bar, Taffer arrived to save the legacy of a room grieving a lost owner, working to steady a business and a family knocked off balance by the death. The rescue centered on giving the surviving family the structure and direction to carry the legacy forward. Taffer reopened the venue as Layla's Pizza Pub, a rebrand meant to give the room a fresh identity, betting that a clearer concept and a re-focused family could protect the legacy the late owner had built, with the familiar question of whether the changes would hold once the cameras left California.
After the cameras left
Papa Joe's current status could not be verified. A rename claim to Layla's Pizza Pub was seen only via a banned fan-tracker paraphrase, which the project cannot cite, and independent confirmation attempts failed amid search errors and rate limits. Because the rename claim traces solely to an excluded source and nothing citable confirms the room's current operation, the status is honestly recorded as unverifiable, the Layla's Pizza Pub lead at 12220 Pigeon Pass Road flagged for a cleaner independent check rather than asserted from tracker sourcing.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.