barBar Rescue · Season 7, Episode 1 · Aired March 1, 2020
SacTown Sports Bar & Grill
Sacramento, California
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
What happened after
An official, live-looking website (sactownsportsbar.com) still describes the business under its original name at 106 J Street, Sacramento, in Old Sacramento, with a current Yelp listing (3.5/5, 237 reviews). A separate, unconfirmed secondary claim says it was renamed Brannan Manor; that claim could not be corroborated against the official site during this pass.
What happened on the show
Rapper and singer T-Pain joined Taffer's recon team for the season-seven rescue of SacTown Sports Bar and Grill in Old Sacramento. The bar received the show's standard intervention, with the recon reading the room as customers, a confrontation over its problems, a stress test of the staff, and a renovation aimed at giving the sports bar a real identity in a historic district. Taffer proposed reopening the venue as Brannan Manor, a rebrand meant to sharpen the concept, betting that a clearer identity and a disciplined operation could steady a Sacramento sports bar that had been struggling in the tourist-heavy Old Sacramento area before the cameras arrived to force a reset. The Old Sacramento tourist corridor gave the room steady foot traffic, which made its inability to convert that traffic into a profitable sports bar all the more glaring.
After the cameras left
SacTown's current identity is unsettled in the record. An official, live-looking website still describes the business under its original name at 106 J Street in Old Sacramento, with a current Yelp listing, which supports it operating as SacTown, but a separate unconfirmed claim says it was renamed Brannan Manor. The two signals conflict and could not be reconciled this pass. On balance it is recorded as open at medium confidence under the original name, since the live official site is the stronger evidence, with the Brannan Manor rename flagged as unverified.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.