Big W Cattle Co. (Uncle Albert's Pub) - Bar Rescue Update

In this week's episode of Bar Rescue, the show is in Houston, Texas to rescue Uncle Albert's Pub.  This is another episode where Jon Taffer will not be involved and Phil Wills will be in charge of the rescue with the help of Danny Trejo.  Uncle Albert's Pub is owned by Les and Rebecca Weaver and they are supposedly $123,000 in debt.  When doing recon, they find that the bar is not following cleaning procedures and Les is drinking while at the bar.  Les also doesn't like how the show is treating everybody which causes an argument.  The bar is supposedly losing about $3,000 a month and is months away from closing.

During the Bar Rescue makeover, the show decided to change the name of Uncle Albert's Pub to Big W Cattle Co. and the bar has kept the name. Let's take a look at some information, reviews, and updates for Big W Cattle Co. since Bar Rescue came and made all of the changes to the bar (All reviews are post-Bar Rescue):

Positive Reviews:

• "Elisa has gone above and beyond for me and my buddies every single time we have visited. The name change didn’t change the culture which was already great. She won me over my first visit and she is why I’ve continued to frequent Big W’s."

Negative Reviews:

• "What I love about dive bars are the prices, and good food. This place is expensive and the foods not good. It’s an extremely, embarrassingly bad bar. They’ve remodeled and changed the name. Prices are similar to what you’d find at an upscale bar around downtown Houston area."
• "It's already a different name and different prices too"

*Reviews from Google

Other News and Links:

• The Bar Rescue for Uncle Albert's Pub happened April 2024, so just a few months before the episode aired.
• Here is a preview video of the episode from the Bar Rescue YouTube page
• Here is the Uncle Albert's Pub website and Facebook page. They haven't posted anything since the makeover, but the reviews say the name has changed.  It seems they kept the name of Big W Cattle Co., but they have yet to update their website or social media sites. 
• Here are the Facebook pages of Les (owner), Rebecca (owner), Elisa (bartender), Keesa (bartender)
• Here are the reviews for Big W Cattle Co. from Yelp and Google.
• Shortly after the Bar Rescue makeover (May 2024) there was a video posted online of a driver running over a woman and fleeing the scene right outside of Big W Cattle Co. (Link)

Conclusion:

Bar Rescue decided to change the name of Uncle Albert's Pub to Big W Cattle Co. and the bar has kept the name despite not updating their website/social media.  Because the episode is airing just a few months after the makeover, there aren't too many reviews, so it is hard to see how things are going. The few reviews that Big W Cattle Co. has are mixed with there being a few comments about the higher prices.  This will be a bar to monitor to see if they end up updating their website/social media sites and start advertising their appearance on Bar Rescue.

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