The BEST episodes of Bar Rescue season 3
Every episode of Bar Rescue season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Bar Rescue season 3!
Bars mean money, but they also mean stress if they aren't properly run. Jon Taffer is a bar and nightclub owner who has started, flipped, or owned over 600 bars and clubs in his career and currently owns one of the most highly respected consulting firms in the bar and nightclub industry. Jon will travel around the country and employ his expertise to return struggling bars to the cash cows they once were. Everything from the science of the perfect pour, to the height of the bar stools is a key factor in making a bar the hottest place in town.
#1 - Characters Assassination
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/11/2013
Characters Quarters Garner, NC Characters Quarters might be the worst bar concept ever, but it’s only 1 of the problems Jon must overcome at this confused establishment run by a family of Yankees in heart of Dixie.
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#2 - Meat Sauna
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2013
Stand Up Scottsdale Scottsdale, AZ Bad ventilation cause hot, moist burger smoke to fill Scottsdale’s least funny comedy club. Jon Taffer arrives to clear the air and use proven bar techniques to create bigger laughs and bigger profits for the troubled owners.
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#3 - Hurricane Jon Vs Hurricane Sandy
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 10/27/2013
Bungalow Bar Rockaway Beach, NY It’s the biggest rescue in series history: resurrect the hurricane battered Bungalow Bar in Rockaway Beach, NY. But with the summer season fast approaching, Jon races to repair the structure & retrain the staff in time.
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#4 - Don't Judge a Booze by its Bottle
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/14/2013
Cashmere Raleigh, NC North Carolina’s Cashmere Nightclub has a bad name, poor décor and an embarrassing manager, but when Jon learns that they are refilling premium liquor bottles with cheap booze, all hell breaks loose.
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#5 - Don't Mess With Taffer's Wife
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/7/2013
Sand Dollar Las Vegas, NV An aggressive Las Vegas bar owner tries to pick up Nicole Taffer, sending Jon into a rage. Can he set this owner’s wandering eyes straight and save a once famous blues bar without coming to blows first?
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#6 - A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/7/2013
Kid Chilleen's Black Canyon City, AZ Horses defecating inside this Arizona bar are the least of Jon Taffer’s problems. He must contend with drunk owners, a family in turmoil, and a bank foreclosure if he hopes to save this business.
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#7 - A Bar Full of Bull
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/25/2013
Libad's New Bedford, MA A rickety mechanical bull fails to attract customers in this salty New England whaling community. Can Jon right this ship and prevent two siblings from sinking the bar and their father’s retirement?
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#8 - Barely Above Water
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/15/2013
Marley's On The Beach Warwick, RI Taffer makes two bars out of one in an attempt to save both a beachfront bar in Warwick, Rhode Island, and the owner’s marriage.
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#9 - Play Some Janet Jackson!
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/4/2013
Gipsy Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas' first gay nightclub, Gipsy, is months from closing its doors thanks to its verbally abusive and over intoxicated owner. Can Jon rescue one of Sin City’s most famous landmarks?
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#10 - Turtle on Its Back
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/10/2013
Turtle Bay New Orleans, LA For a bar to fail on Bourbon Street in New Orleans it takes a special kind of incompetence. Can bar expert Jon Taffer get these delusional owners to ditch their copy-cat ways and start thinking for themselves?
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#11 - Corking the Hole
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/18/2013
Cliques Hope Mills, NC 13 miles from Fort Bragg, Cliques suffers from a juvenile name and a repugnant reputation. Jon puts the owners through his personal bar boot camp in the hopes of making it the R&R destination of choice for local military personnel.
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#12 - Music City Mess
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 11/25/2013
BoondoxXx BBQ Nashville, TN A country music snob with an explosive personality turns to Jon for help. Note: The episode was originally supposed to air on November 24, 2013, but was replaced with an encore after the owner was accused of fatally shooting a patron, and then claimed the shooting was in self-defense. However, it aired unintentionally three hours later in a late-night "encore slot" due to a technical/human error.
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#13 - I Smell A Rat
Season 3 - Episode 38 - Aired 4/27/2014
Oasis Hookah Bar Omaha, NE Oasis Hookah Bar is in dire straits. They serve toxic drinks and have terrible service. To top it all off, there's a dead rat somewhere in the building, but nobody knows where.
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#14 - There's No Crying in the Bar Business
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/28/2013
Barlow's Bar & Grill Tucker, GA Jon heads to a Georgia sports bar and encounters an owner who’s incessant crying seems to prevent her noticing the massive employee theft issue occurring right under her nose.
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#15 - Two Flew Over the Handlebars
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/21/2013
The Handlebar Café Pawcatuck, CT Two buxom sisters have driven their biker bar in Pawcatuck, Connecticut into a ditch. Can Jon get these party women to stop binge drinking and focus on the real assets of their bar?
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#16 - Karaoke Katastrophe
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/31/2013
Dimples Burbank, CA At Dimples, America’s first karaoke bar, Jon Taffer must deal with dated décor, an angry chef, and an oblivious owner… who’s also a hoarder.
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#17 - Beer and Loathing in Las Vegas
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/8/2013
The Hammer Las Vegas, NV Hammers is a watering hole for blue-collar locals, owned and operated by two classically trained chefs and former friends. Taffer arrives to discover that both their business and their friendship appear beyond repair.
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#18 - Jon T, He Don't Like It
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/17/2013
Kasbah Aurora, CO 10 years ago, The Kasbah Lounge in Aurora, Colorado was an urban hotspot. Now it is a relic. Bar Expert Jon Taffer must breathe new life into this dying nightclub otherwise it will become extinct for good.
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#19 - Bro's Got to Geaux
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/2013
TJ Quills New Orleans, LA Bar Expert Jon Taffer must rescue a rundown college bar with a bad reputation for serving minors. But can he get the owner and his bartender buddies to ditch their frat boy ways and focus on the business?
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#20 - Tears for Beers
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2013
The Brixton Austin, TX Bar Expert Jon Taffer fights to save a terminally hip bar on 6th St in Austin, TX that is too cool for its own customers. If he fails it will not only cost a husband & wife their business but possibly their marriage.
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#21 - Empty Pockets
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/2013
Zanzibar Denver, CO Bar Expert Jon Taffer must rescue a pool hall in Denver from closing, but a prideful immigrant owner stands in his way. Can Jon help him fulfill his American Dream or will it continue to be a nightmare?
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#22 - Punch-Drunk & Trailer Trashed
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 3/23/2014
OFace Bar Council Bluffs, IA A dysfunctional family’s feuding pushes Jon Taffer to the limit. Will their outrageous antics force Jon into an extreme decision?
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#23 - In a Pinch
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/24/2013
Lona's Wardlow Station Long Beach, CA Lona's Wardlow Station has locals upset over a controversial lobster tank game. Can Jon Taffer bring peace and profitability back to this blue-collar watering hole?
#24 - Twin Vs. Twin
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 12/15/2013
RG's Lounge Independence, MO Lights, sirens and handcuffs greet Jon before he even enters the door of this Kansas City bar. Sibling rivalry between two identical twins with identical huge egos, present Taffer with one of his toughest rescues.
#25 - Crappy Cantina
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/6/2013
Rocky Point Cantina Tempe, AZ Two brothers have drained their parents' retirement fund by opening an ill-conceived death-metal concert bar. Taffer arrives to run off the metal-head clientele & straighten out this festering mosh pit of failure.