barBar Rescue · Season 5, Episode 14 · Aired February 19, 2017
St8 Pub
Englewood, Colorado
The trail goes cold here; we could not verify whether it is still open. The last confirmed sighting we found dates to 2017.
What happened after
Renamed "Downstairs Bar + Kitchen" after the S5E14 rescue; informal signals indicate it closed around August 2017 and a business called "The Englewood Tavern" (4386 S Broadway) has since occupied the space. No independently citable evidence URL could be obtained this session (search-infrastructure gap, see shard-level note).
What happened on the show
An abrasive owner had taken advantage of his mother's generosity to seize a craft-beer bar from his landlord, and his attitude was the throughline of the trouble. At St8 Pub in Englewood, Taffer confronted an owner who had leaned on family money and burned goodwill to seize the room, then run it with the same abrasiveness that had gotten him there. The rescue worked to check the owner's behavior and give a craft-beer concept a functional operation behind it. Taffer reopened the venue as Downstairs Bar and Kitchen, a rebrand meant to give the room a fresh identity once its owner was pushed to lead with something other than aggression, betting that a chastened owner and a coherent concept could steady a bar he had strong-armed his way into running.
After the cameras left
St8 Pub, rebranded Downstairs Bar and Kitchen, could not be verified as currently operating. Informal signals indicate it closed around August 2017, with a business called The Englewood Tavern since occupying the 4386 South Broadway space, but no independently citable evidence URL was obtained: the successor's address and description surfaced only in search snippets, with no Yelp, Facebook or official page fetchable to confirm the current status. With nothing citable to point to, the status is honestly recorded as unverifiable, the Englewood Tavern lead left open.
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