What Happened to Weber's Place After Bar Rescue? (Reseda, CA)

Weber's Place was a former strip club converted into a bar in Reseda, California, run by owner Kervin Cinton, who had used his life savings to open the business in 2007, when it appeared on the September 9, 2012 episode "Weber's of Lies" (Bar Rescue S2E7). Per Wikipedia's episode summary, Jon Taffer found an untrained staff, a head bartender who was stealing from the till, and a kitchen serving dangerously undercooked food, on top of a booking calendar built around returning the venue to its music-and-nightlife roots. Taffer's team retrained the staff on service and food safety and gave the bar a modest rebrand as Weber's Rum Bar & Grill, keeping the recognizable "Weber's" name while signaling the operational reset underneath it.

The changes did not hold. Owners subsequently renamed the business again, to Weber's Sports Bar & Grill, and brought back the live-music programming that had defined it before Bar Rescue's visit. Customer reviews compiled by the fan site Bar Rescue Updates in an April 2018 post describe post-renovation service as inconsistent, with one reviewer writing that "anything upgraded from their episode in Bar Rescue has vanished," and the same fan-site post states that Weber's Sports Bar and Grill closed in the middle of 2013, less than a year after the Bar Rescue episode aired.

A Yelp listing for Weber's Sports Bar & Grill at 19312 Vanowen Street, last updated in June 2026, is marked closed, corroborating that the location has not reopened under any of its three names since. The business's Facebook page remained visible online after the closure but stopped posting new content, according to the same 2018 fan-site update, though that detail has not been independently confirmed. Kervin Cinton's original financial gamble, funded entirely from his own savings in 2007, ultimately did not pay off across either the Weber's Rum Bar & Grill or Weber's Sports Bar & Grill era, and no available source describes a subsequent reopening of the Vanowen Street space under a new bar concept.