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What Happened to The County Line Lounge & Grille After Bar Rescue?

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As of September 2026, The County Line Lounge & Grille has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 26, 2023.

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Secondary source
tucsonfoodie.com ·

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What the source shows: A fan recap site reported that an announcement dated April 26, 2023 described the bar as closed and sold by co-owner Paul, after Jon Taffer had renamed the business The Billy Bar in the 2021 episode.

  • Season / episode Season 8, Episode 11
  • Original air date
  • Address 1145 W Prince Rd, Tucson, AZ 85705
  • Current name The Billy Bar: An Arizona Bar & Grill

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What happened after Bar Rescue?

The County Line Lounge & Grille appeared on Bar Rescue season 8, episode 11, "Remembering Billy," which aired August 8, 2021, in Tucson, Arizona. According to Tucson Foodie, bartender Denise Maley and her fiancé Billy bought the bar in 2018 to fulfill Billy's longtime goal of bar ownership, with their friend Paul buying in for a 49 percent stake; Billy died three months after the purchase. Jon Taffer's on-air rescue renamed the business The Billy Bar: An Arizona Bar & Grill, and Tucson Foodie reported that the relaunched bar displayed a wall of Billy's photographs as a memorial.

A fan recap site devoted to tracking the bar's post-show status reported that an announcement dated April 26, 2023 described the bar as closed, stating that co-owner Paul had sold the business; the recap page was itself last updated June 6, 2023. No source found within the single search performed for this record described what has occupied the space since, or confirmed the business's status past that April 2023 announcement.

The address supplied with this batch's automated location step, 5769 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, matched a listing for "The Frozen Cactus sports bar and restauraunt," also called RJ's Frozen Cactus. That match does not appear to be this restaurant: Tucson Foodie's coverage separately describes RJ's Replays, at what is now the Frozen Cactus address, as the subject of a different, earlier Bar Rescue episode filmed in Tucson in 2018, unconnected to the County Line Lounge or Billy Bar rescue. The address and coordinates recorded above instead come from the location named in the closure-announcement recap and were confirmed through the Census Bureau's geocoding service rather than a business directory, so they should be treated as approximate pending independent confirmation.

No further news coverage of the closure, a sale to a new operator, or a reopening under another name was found within the search budget available for this record.

Featured on Bar Rescue

Season / episode
Season 8, Episode 11
Original air date
Episode title
Remembering Billy
What was featured
Bar renamed in memory of a co-owner who died shortly after buying it
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
The County Line Lounge & Grille

Frequently asked questions

Is The County Line Lounge & Grille still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, The County Line Lounge & Grille has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 26, 2023.

What happened to The County Line Lounge & Grille after Bar Rescue?

The County Line Lounge & Grille appeared on Bar Rescue season 8, episode 11, "Remembering Billy," which aired August 8, 2021, in Tucson, Arizona. As of September 2026, The County Line Lounge & Grille has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 26, 2023.

Is The County Line Lounge & Grille permanently closed?

As of September 2026, The County Line Lounge & Grille has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 26, 2023. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

What is The County Line Lounge & Grille called now?

Now: The Billy Bar: An Arizona Bar & Grill (formerly The County Line Lounge & Grille). As of September 2026, The County Line Lounge & Grille has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 26, 2023.

Where is The County Line Lounge & Grille located?

1145 W Prince Rd, Tucson, AZ 85705. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Bar Rescue featured The County Line Lounge & Grille?

Season 8, Episode 11 of Bar Rescue, first aired August 8, 2021. The episode is titled “Remembering Billy”.

Did the makeover last at The County Line Lounge & Grille?

The episode first aired August 8, 2021. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 5 years later —: As of September 2026, The County Line Lounge & Grille has closed — confirmed via the business's own closure notice, April 26, 2023.

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Address
1145 W Prince Rd, Tucson, AZ 85705
Venue type
bar
Official website
thefrozencactus.com

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