What Happened to Cirivello's Bar After Bar Rescue? (Long Beach, CA)

Cirivello's Bar was a bar in Long Beach, California, purchased by a first-time bar owner who convinced several friends to invest in the venture. In the episode "Danny Sits on His Fanny," Jon Taffer's team found the business deeply in debt after costly buildout decisions, with a group of investor-partners moving to force the original buyer out of day-to-day control. The show depicted an ownership structure, with the founding owner holding a minority stake against a majority investor group, that had become openly adversarial by the time the crew arrived.

The rescue team restructured the bar's concept and renamed it The Aging Room at Cirivello's, introducing a bourbon and cigar-lounge angle intended to differentiate it from typical sports bars in the neighborhood. The consultants also worked to mediate the ownership dispute among the founding owner and the investor group, aiming to establish clearer lines of authority going into the relaunch. The new concept operated for roughly a year before running into trouble. According to a customer social media post referenced by Bar Rescue Updates, the bar had lost its liquor license and had been closed for several weeks by around July 2017.

A Yelp listing for Cirivellos Sports Bar at 4115 North Viking Way, updated March 2026, still shows the location marked closed, consistent with the 2017 reporting. A separate, unrelated Cirivello's Italian Restaurant location on East Anaheim Street is also listed as closed on Yelp but is a different business from the Viking Way sports bar featured on the episode. Taffer's on-air resolution focused on giving the ownership group a clearer structure and a differentiated bourbon-lounge concept to build around, a fix that held only briefly before the licensing problem, according to Bar Rescue Updates, forced the doors shut roughly a year after the broadcast. That on-air assessment reflects the episode's ending, not an independent evaluation of how the ownership dispute was ultimately resolved.