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. 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 the show'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.