Is The Cave Sports Bar Still Open? Bar Rescue Update (Anaheim, CA)

The Cave Sports Bar in Anaheim, California was featured on the Bar Rescue episode "Caving In," which aired May 13, 2018. The bar had been opened by the son of the original founder, an immigrant who built the neighborhood business from nothing, and the episode showed the son struggling to run it after a renovation that left the layout impractical for service, combined with staff over-serving visibly intoxicated customers. Jon Taffer's team reworked the floor plan and bar layout to fix service flow, retrained staff on responsible alcohol service, and rebuilt the drink and food menus.

The stress test pushed the staff to manage a full house under the new layout while catching signs of over-service before it became a problem. The bar's name was not changed as part of the rescue, and it continued operating as The Cave Sports Bar. Following the relaunch, the owner expanded the business rather than simply maintaining it: a second Cave Sports Bar location opened in Garden Grove, California in mid-2018, according to Reality TV Updates, which has tracked the brand's growth since the episode aired.

Both locations are listed today on the business's own combined website, which directs visitors to the original Anaheim address and a separate Katella Avenue location in Garden Grove, along with an embedded video clip referencing the "Caving In" episode. The bar did shut its doors briefly during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns of 2020, per Reality TV Revisited, before reopening once dine-in service resumed in the area. As of this research pass, the Anaheim location's own website remains active with current contact and location information, and the Garden Grove expansion continues to be listed as well, though no specific 2026-dated post, menu, or review could be independently located to confirm day-to-day current operation. Overall, of the bars the show featured, the Cave Sports Bar represents one of the more durable outcomes: the original Anaheim bar stayed open under the same name and ownership family, weathered a pandemic-era closure reported by Reality TV Revisited, and grew into a second location within months of its television debut, a rare expansion story among this season's rescues.