barBar Rescue · Season 5, Episode 9 · Aired October 23, 2016
The Tradewinds
Cotati, California
Open. The rescue stuck and it continues to operate.
On the show
Season 5, Episode 9 · October 23, 2016 · bar
Revisited in Back to the Bar: The Tradewinds of Change (S6E22, aired 2018-08-12) as The Tradewinds
What happened after
Same name retained since the S5E9 rescue; spine note confirms the name was retained through a 2018 revisit episode. Operating in downtown Cotati since 1965 (current ownership since 2015); Santa Rosa Press Democrat profiled its continued success in a 2023 feature.
What happened on the show
A lazy stepson was failing in his new role as bar manager while his car-dealer father tried to keep the business running. At The Tradewinds in Cotati, Taffer had to confront a young manager who could not rise to the job and a father stretched thin covering for him, a straightforward but stubborn problem of a family member handed responsibility he had not earned. The rescue worked to either shape the stepson into a real manager or make clear he was not one, restoring order to a room drifting on his inattention. Taffer kept the Tradewinds name through the makeover, a signal that a long-running local bar was worth preserving once its management was sorted, betting that clarity about who could actually run the room would steady a business the stepson had been quietly sinking.
After the cameras left
The Tradewinds is still open, name intact. Operating in downtown Cotati since 1965, under current ownership since 2015, it kept its original name through the rescue and the show's 2018 revisit, and the Santa Rosa Press Democrat profiled its continued success in a 2023 feature, with the local chamber of commerce corroborating ongoing operation, which puts the open call at high confidence. The family's bar survived the stepson's shortcomings and kept its doors open, landing this one among the clearer survivors in the catalog.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.