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

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As of September 2026, Weber's Place has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

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What the source shows: Yelp's listing for Weber's Sports Bar & Grill at 19312 Vanowen St is marked CLOSED as of a June 2026 update; Bar Rescue Updates' 2018 post (unverified) states the venue closed in mid-2013 after negative post-renovation reviews.

  • Season / episode Season 2, Episode 7
  • Original air date
  • Address 19312 Vanowen St, Reseda, CA 91335

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What happened after Bar Rescue?

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-tracker site Bar Rescue Updates in an April 2018 post (unverified) describe post-renovation service as inconsistent, with one reviewer writing that "anything upgraded from their episode in Bar Rescue has vanished," and the same tracker 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 tracker update, though that detail was not independently reverified for this record. 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 source located for this record describes a subsequent reopening of the Vanowen Street space under a new bar concept.

Featured on Bar Rescue

Season / episode
Season 2, Episode 7
Original air date
Episode title
Weber's of Lies
What was featured
strip-club-turned-bar renamed twice, then closes
Role
Featured restaurant
Name on the broadcast
Weber's Place

Frequently asked questions

Is Weber's Place still open in 2026?

As of September 2026, Weber's Place has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What happened to Weber's Place after Bar Rescue?

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). As of September 2026, Weber's Place has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

Is Weber's Place permanently closed?

As of September 2026, Weber's Place has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026. We publish a closure only with a dated source behind it, and we say plainly when it has not been independently confirmed.

Where is Weber's Place located?

19312 Vanowen St, Reseda, CA 91335. That is the address on the record as of September 7, 2026.

What season and episode of Bar Rescue featured Weber's Place?

Season 2, Episode 7 of Bar Rescue, first aired September 9, 2012. The episode is titled “Weber's of Lies”.

Did the makeover last at Weber's Place?

The episode first aired September 9, 2012. Our most recent check was September 7, 2026 — 14 years later —: As of September 2026, Weber's Place has closed — confirmed via Yelp, June 2026.

What do reviews say since Bar Rescue?

Customer reviews compiled by the fan-tracker site Bar Rescue Updates in an April 2018 post (unverified) describe post-renovation service as inconsistent, with one reviewer writing that "anything upgraded from their episode in Bar Rescue has vanished," and the same tracker 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. We summarise what dated sources report; we do not publish our own rating.

Is Weber's Place still using the Bar Rescue menu or branding?

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. Anything newer than our last check on September 7, 2026 may not be reflected here.

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Visit info

Address
19312 Vanowen St, Reseda, CA 91335
Venue type
bar
Official website
None found

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Sources

  • Yelp — https://www.yelp.com/biz/webers-sports-bar-and-grill-reseda-2
  • barrescueupdates.com — https://www.barrescueupdates.com/2018/04/webers-rum-bar-grill-webers-place-is-closed.html
  • Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Rescue_season_2

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