What Happened to Summit House Grill And Tap After Bar Rescue?

Summit House Grill and Tap, a bar and restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado, appeared in the February 2017 episode "I Know What You Did Last Summit." Owners Alexia and Josh Lubliner had opened the business in 2014. By the time Jon Taffer arrived, the bar was losing about $4,500 a month, according to figures presented on the show, and carried roughly $750,000 in debt. The episode depicted Josh coping with the financial pressure by drinking on the job and behaving inappropriately toward female customers, which the show connected to strain in his marriage with Alexia.

Taffer's team audited the bar's finances and operations, retrained the staff on service standards, and worked with Josh directly on his drinking and his role as an operator, alongside physical renovations to the space. At a standard six-week follow-up check documented by the production, Josh had stayed sober since the visit and sales were trending upward, suggesting the intervention had produced some early momentum. That momentum did not carry the business through. Summit House Grill and Tap closed in July 2018, roughly two years after Taffer's original visit, according to Bar Rescue Updates' coverage of the closure.

The bar was initially listed as closed for renovations before it became clear the location would not reopen. Yelp's current listing for the Colfax Avenue address, updated as of March 2026, continues to show the business marked closed, and the Mile High Happy Hour directory separately listed the same address as closed in its own closed-bars roundup. No government or licensing record was located to independently pin down the July 2018 closure date beyond the fan-site reporting, so that date is treated here as reported rather than fully verified.

No successor business at 14285 West Colfax Avenue was identified during this research pass. Based on the available evidence -- a consistent closed status across two separate listings years apart -- the location does not appear to be operating under any name as of the most recent check.