Is The Black Sheep Still Open? Bar Rescue Update (Cheviot, OH)

The Black Sheep was an Irish-German pub in Cheviot, Ohio, run by an owner who was spread too thin across multiple jobs when it appeared on the August 26, 2012 episode "Broke Black Sheep" (Bar Rescue S2E6). Per Wikipedia's summary, Jon Taffer arrived to a long list of problems and an owner carrying more than $800,000 in loans that he had kept hidden from his own family. Taffer's team rebuilt the food program around a German and Irish menu that matched the pub's heritage concept, addressed the operational gaps that came from the owner's divided attention, and renamed the bar The Public House at relaunch, framing the new name as a fresh identity built on a more disciplined version of the same pub culture.

Unlike several other bars from the same season, the rebrand stuck. The Public House's own website states that "all cards were thrown on the table in August of 2012" when the bar appeared on Bar Rescue, and describes having operated continuously since under the new name and German-Irish-influenced menu. The site's footer carries a 2026 copyright date, and the business maintains an active online ordering system alongside current menu and rental-information pages, all under the thepublichousecheviot.com domain. The site also states that the restaurant has been recognized by multiple news and media outlets for having Cincinnati's Best Burger and Best Pizza for more than a decade, a claim the business attributes to its post-rescue German/Irish kitchen.

Customer comments displayed on the site reference the Bar Rescue history directly, with several describing the space as a reliable neighborhood pub built around its Guinness selection and scratch-made pizza. Taken together, the site's live ordering link, current menu, and 2026-dated copyright line meet this record's standard for an official, current source, making The Public House one of the more durable transformations from this stretch of Season 2.