What Happened to Tumbleweed Grill & Bar After Bar Rescue?

Bar Rescue (Paramount Network) featured Tumbleweed Grill & Bar in Apache Junction, Arizona, in the season 9 episode "Mis-Steaks Were Made," which aired June 23, 2024, though filming took place the previous October, according to the fan site realitytvupdates.com. That source reported the bar's central problem was a bartender who could not make an Old Fashioned without searching for instructions online, reflecting a broader lack of basic bartending training among the staff. Per realitytvupdates.com, rescue expert Dustin Drai renamed the business Gold Rush Saloon, tying the new concept to the area's historic gold-mining sites, and redesigned the bar around that theme.

The same source reported that the owners began using the Gold Rush Saloon name after the makeover but reverted to calling the bar Tumbleweed Grill within weeks, and described post-rescue Yelp reviews as mostly negative while Google reviews were more mixed. According to the Daily Independent (yourvalley.net), the bar's owners announced on Facebook on April 18, 2024, that Tumbleweed Grill would close permanently the following day, April 19, 2024 — about six months after the Bar Rescue crew's visit and roughly two months before the episode aired. Yelp's listing for the business, marked closed and last updated in July 2026, still shows the location as permanently closed at 725 W. Apache Trail.

Google's business record for the same coordinates likewise lists the location as permanently closed. In September 2026, the bar's former website, tumbleweedgrillandbar.com, returned a database-connection error page rather than any business content, consistent with an abandoned or unmaintained domain. No source found in this check indicated a new business had taken over the address since the April 2024 closure. Realitytvupdates.com's account suggests the reversion to the original name and the negative post-rescue reviews may have contributed to the closure, though the Daily Independent's report of the closure announcement did not itself state a reason.