Tag: Bar Rescue

Looks like ‘Bar Rescue’ is sniffing around Milwaukee again

January 10, 2024

Has it really been 10 years since kinda-sorta-reality and failing-bar-revamp show Bar Rescue blew into Milwaukee and "rescued" two Milwaukee bars? Good grief, it has... Remember in 2014, when host John Taffe...

R.I.P. Campbell’s Irish Pub, the last of Milwaukee’s ‘Bar Rescue’ bars

Matt Wild

April 29, 2022

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: no more Bar Rescue bars. And then there were none. Somewhere, Jon T...

Bar Rescue’s own Campbell’s Irish Pub is for sale

Tyler Maas

December 27, 2017

In 2014, we broke news that Bar Rescue would be using its infallible tactics of serving sliders and overly complicated Smirnoff Vodka shaker cocktails to save not one, but two Milwaukee bars. The first one, Y-N...

Nick’s House / Y-Not III has been demolished

Matt Wild

July 5, 2016

The building of the former Nick's House—the ultimately ill-fated Bar Rescue experiment that turned the Y-Not III into a '70s-themed bar—has been demolished. Per a photo from Urban Milwaukee, the property at 185...

Nick’s House is having a going-out-of-business “yard sale”

Matt Wild

May 16, 2016

// Earlier this month we brought you news that Nick's House—the former Y-Not III that was given a Bar Rescue overhaul in 2014—was, in the parlance of Bar Rescue host John Taffer, SHUTTING IT DOWN. Now, the ...

Bar Rescue seemed to actually work for Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

May 9, 2016

// As we reported last week, Nick's House—the East Side dive formerly known as Y-Not III until Bar Rescue turned it into a '70s-themed bar and Smirnoff vodka emporium—closed its doors for good in the wee ho...

Bar Rescue can’t rescue Nick’s House from Bar Rescue

Tyler Maas

May 6, 2016

As first reported by OnMilwaukee.com last night, Nick's House is closing. Back in September 2014, we broke news that popular SPIKE TV "reality" series and thinly veiled Smirnoff commercial Bar Rescue was com...

Tracklist: 10 final Bar Rescue takeaways

Tyler Maas

December 17, 2014

And so it’s come to this. Okay, so it’s not quite Woodward and Bernstein-level journalism. No, we didn’t compile an irrefutable report that a Heisman trophy candidate’s deceased girlfriend never existed, nor di...

Tracklist: 12 Bar Rescue takeaways

Tyler Maas

December 8, 2014

// It finally happened. Months after revealing Spike TV “reality” series Bar Rescue was scouting locations in the city, then subsequently breaking the news of what bar would be featured on the show and when...

Watch two ridiculous clips from Bar Rescue’s Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode

Matt Wild

December 5, 2014

Are we really running another post about Bar Rescue’s upcoming Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode? To paraphrase BR host John Taffer, “YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT WE ARE!!! NOW COME DOWNSTAIRS FOR A STAFF MEETING!!!” Yes,...

Bar Rescue’s Y-Not III/Nick’s House episode will air next week

Tyler Maas

November 29, 2014

The last week of September through early October, SPIKE TV reality show/evidence Western society is experiencing a rapid downward spiral Bar Rescue came to Milwaukee to begin the transformation of two area bars...

Bar Rescue opens latest Milwaukee project, Campbell’s Irish Pub

Tyler Maas

October 15, 2014

// Last week, we broke the story that SPIKE TV’s Bar Rescue remained in Milwaukee after turning Y-Not III into Nick’s House, and was in the process of transforming Howell Avenue dive Packy’s Pub as well. Sa...

Bar Rescue is rescuing another bar, Packy’s Pub

Tyler Maas

October 8, 2014

// Last week, SPIKE TV’s premier non-COPS-reality show Bar Rescue came to town and transformed Y-Not III into a ’70s themed Smirnoff cocktail emporium called “Nick’s House.” However, when a city has as many...

Bar Rescue turned Y-Not III into a ’70s-themed bar called Nick’s House

Matt Wild

October 3, 2014

A few months ago, rumors flew that popular SPIKE TV reality-ish show Bar Rescue was searching for a Milwaukee bar in need of a makeover. The city buzzed with shaker-cocktail-infused excitement. Then, on Monday,...

Bar Rescue is rescuing Y-Not III this week

Milwaukee Record Staff

September 29, 2014

A few months ago, we told you that popular SPIKE TV series Bar Rescue was in town scouting Milwaukee locations to, well, rescue. Yes, one lucky Brew City bar was being considered for Jon Taffer’s unique brand o...

Tracklist: 11 Milwaukee bars that could use rescuing

Milwaukee Record Staff

June 2, 2014

Last week, we revealed that Spike TV mainstay Bar Rescue is scouting a Milwaukee location to salvage with its tried and true bar-saving formula of screaming at people and using high-end technology given to them...

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