Bar Rescue · S3 E3
TJ Quills
New Orleans, Louisiana
Same spot, new identity after the show. It now goes by The Annex.
The short answer
Uptown New Orleans college bar at 7600 Maple St (near Tulane/Loyola), established 1962; renamed 'The Annex' after Bar Rescue. Continues operating with recent event promotions (e.g. Oct 2025 themed nights).
What happened on the show
Taffer inherited a real mess in Uptown New Orleans, where an owner and his fraternity-brother friends had bought a college hangout notorious for all the wrong reasons. The bartenders drank on the job and served patrons carrying fake IDs, a combination that put the whole liquor license, and the business with it, one bad night away from disaster. TJ Quills sat on Maple Street near Tulane and Loyola and dated back to 1962, a room with genuine history being run into the ground by new owners treating it like their own party. Taffer's rescue tightened both the bar program and the door, resetting a culture that had grown dangerously loose, and reopened the venue as The Annex, a cleaner identity built to keep the lucrative student crowd without the legal exposure that came with serving anyone who flashed a card. The bet was that discipline behind the bar and at the entrance could preserve a six-decade institution the fraternity crowd had nearly gotten shut down.
After the cameras left
The Annex is still operating on Maple Street. A directly fetched listing from the independent directory welcometonola.com confirms a venue at 7600 Maple Street trading under that name with posted hours, resolving earlier uncertainty about which Facebook page belonged to it. Recent event promotions, including October 2025 themed nights, back up the ongoing operation. A separate claim that it reverted to the TJ Quills name traced to an excluded fan-tracker and was not carried forward. Confidence is medium.
Location
7600 Maple St
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Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.