barBar Rescue · Season 5, Episode 5 · Aired September 25, 2016
YNot Sports Pub & Grub
Everett, Washington
We could not confirm its current status.
What happened after
Briefly renamed "The Forbidden Pub" during the S5E5 rescue but owners reverted to the original name. Multiple informal signals (vacant storefront reports, 2021-2023) pointed toward closure, but no independently citable non-fan-tracker evidence URL could be obtained this session (search-infrastructure gap, see shard-level note).
What happened on the show
A staffing crisis hit an Everett sports pub right before the stress test, leaving the owners with no employees at all. At YNot Sports Pub and Grub, the old bartenders had been fired and the chef had quit in protest, forcing Taffer into an improvised call: rather than a stress test, he held what he dubbed the show's first-ever Bartending Audition to build an entirely new staff on the spot. The rescue became a scramble to salvage the night and determine whether the room could be saved at all with a crew assembled from scratch. Taffer briefly reopened the venue as The Forbidden Pub, though the owners ultimately reverted to the original name, the whole episode defined by the staffing collapse that upended the usual playbook.
After the cameras left
YNot's current status could not be verified. The owners reverted from the Forbidden Pub rebrand back to the original name, and multiple informal signals across 2021 to 2023, including vacant-storefront reports, pointed toward closure, but no independently citable, non-tracker source could be obtained, and a fresh search for the Hewitt Avenue address returned only unrelated venues. With nothing verifiable to confirm the closure, the status is honestly recorded as unverifiable, the closure leads noted for a cleaner follow-up rather than asserted from informal signals alone.
Sources
Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.