Uncle Albert's Pub Is Now Big W Cattle Co. — Bar Rescue Update

Bar Rescue (Paramount Network) featured Uncle Albert's Pub, owned by Les and Rebecca Weaver, in the Houston, Texas, area in the season 9 episode "Long Island Mess," which aired July 14, 2024. According to the fan site realitytvupdates.com, the couple was roughly $123,000 in debt at the time of filming, the bar was losing about $3,000 a month and was described as months from closing, and recon visits found cleaning procedures not being followed along with Les drinking while working the bar. Per realitytvupdates.com, rescue experts Phil Wills and Danny Trejo renamed the bar Big W Cattle Co., introduced an Angus-beef-focused menu to match the new concept, and redesigned the space around a Texas theme with new furnishings and lighting.

The rescue took place in April 2024, a few months before the episode aired, the same source reported. By September 2026, the business's own website, bigwcattleco.com, described itself as "Texas on a Plate," listed hand-cut steaks, burgers, and daily specials such as an Angus New York strip and a club sandwich, and gave hours of 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. The site's social-media links pointed to accounts still carrying the Uncle Albert's Pub name, tying the current business directly back to the one featured on Bar Rescue. Its online menu page was still marked under construction.

The business's listed street address, 6172 Barker Cypress Rd, sits in an unincorporated part of Harris County that the Google Places record and the original episode both bill as Houston, though the Big W Cattle Co. site's own copy markets the location as being in Katy, a nearby community. This update keeps the city as Houston to match the Places record, treating the Katy branding as a marketing choice rather than a change of municipality. No source found in this check indicated the business had closed or changed ownership again since the rename.