Top Shelf Sports Bar & Grille Is Now Blue Line Tavern — Bar Rescue Update

Top Shelf Sports Bar & Grille, at 90 S Main St in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, appeared in Bar Rescue's ninth season episode "Rock Bottom at Top Shelf," which aired March 9, 2025 on Paramount Network. According to a Travel Wisconsin business listing and a LoopNet commercial-property listing for the address -- the latter titled in part "(Bar Rescue Renovated) Blue Line Tavern" -- the bar first opened as Top Shelf in June 2019, and in September 2024 its owners invited the Bar Rescue crew back to help turn the business around. That visit resulted in a name change: the business relaunched as Blue Line Tavern, according to the same Travel Wisconsin and Fond du Lac tourism-site listings, which describe an American-style menu built around slow-smoked wings, stacked burgers and made-to-order pizza alongside a breakfast service.

The listings also describe live entertainment -- trivia, comedy and karaoke nights -- and an outdoor patio as features of the relaunched bar. The specific decor or staffing changes made during the Bar Rescue visit were not detailed in the sources reviewed for this update. Blue Line Tavern continues to operate at the same Main Street address under its post-show name. The business maintains an active website, bluelinetavern.com, with separate pages for its menu and event calendar, and a Google Places listing for 90 S Main St shows the location as operational under the Blue Line Tavern name.

A direct fetch of the site returned an HTTP 403 response during this check, which blocks automated access but is not itself evidence the business is closed; the site continued to appear in search indexes with current menu and events content. Its posted hours -- Tuesday through Saturday from 7 a.m. to midnight, with Mondays closed -- are consistent across the Travel Wisconsin and Fond du Lac tourism listings. No sources reviewed for this update describe a subsequent closure or ownership change; the available listings consistently describe Blue Line Tavern as the operating business at the address once occupied by Top Shelf Sports Bar & Grille.