Rohrer's Tavern

What happened after

Closed after 66 years; owner cited father's passing, bad winter, and dismal sales in a public statement.

Closure date on record: 2014-04

What happened on the show

Rohrer's Tavern was the tavern Robert Irvine took on in the fifth season in North Bend. The durable record holds few specifics of the Rohrer's Tavern visit, and Wikipedia gives this North Bend episode no summary. So at Rohrer's Tavern the fixed rescue applied: Irvine tastes the tavern's food, works the North Bend kitchen, confronts the owners, and rebuilds the North Bend room across two days on a small budget. None of the Rohrer's Tavern specifics were preserved in North Bend, and we will not fabricate substitutes for them. So Rohrer's Tavern's North Bend setting and the show's steady method are the parts we can genuinely stand behind. Decades of North Bend history back this tavern, and the owner's own words, quoted when it finally closed, give the ending its detail.

After the cameras left

Rohrer's Tavern closed in April 2014 after sixty-six years, with the owner citing a father's passing, a bad winter, and dismal sales in a public statement. The Cincinnati Enquirer carried the owner's direct quote, which puts the closure at high confidence. A tavern that had served North Bend for two-thirds of a century could not turn its television rescue into survival, and a combination of personal loss and hard business conditions closed it within roughly a year and a half of the episode.