barBar Rescue · Season 9, Episode 25 · Aired March 9, 2025
Top Shelf Sports Bar & Grille
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Still going, now under a new name. It now goes by Blue Line Tavern.
What happened after
Rebranded "Blue Line Tavern" (hockey-themed). Cross-corroborated: a guessed restaurantji.com slug for "Top Shelf" silently redirected to a Blue Line Tavern listing at the same address (90 S Main St), flagged per the guessed-slug caution, then independently confirmed via Chamber of Commerce directory and the business's own Instagram/Facebook (which still carries the old "Topshelfsportsbarandgrille" handle, 3,786 likes).
What happened on the show
Top Shelf Sports Bar and Grille in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, came in for the show's standard intervention, with Donnie Wahlberg joining Taffer for the recon. Under owners Kari and Craig, the room went through Bar Rescue's usual arc of scrutiny, confrontation, a stress test and a renovation aimed at giving the struggling sports bar a stronger footing. Taffer's team reopened the venue as Blue Line Tavern, a hockey-themed rebrand, betting that a sharper concept and a disciplined operation could steady the room. The reveal handed the owners a new identity, with the familiar test of whether they could sustain the changes once the cameras left Wisconsin and the day-to-day fell back to them. A Fond du Lac sports bar under owners Kari and Craig, it had a local base worth keeping, which made the hockey-themed reset a bet on a sharper draw.
After the cameras left
Blue Line Tavern stuck and is still operating. The hockey-themed rebrand of Top Shelf is confirmed at 90 South Main Street in Fond du Lac via a chamber-of-commerce directory and the business's own Instagram and Facebook, which still carry the old Top Shelf handle with nearly 3,800 likes, under owners Kari and Craig, which puts the status at medium confidence as renamed. The sports bar carried the Blue Line identity forward and kept its doors open, landing this one among the renamed survivors of the ninth season.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.