Update: R Bar is still open and rocking, but only three nights a week

• Jaimie Warren
• The R Bar becomes a weekend-only venue after this weekend.

Update: R Bar owner Joy Jacobs told Fat City, after yesterday’s post about the bar and restaurant’s new hours, that she has decided to keep the West Bottoms venue open three nights a week instead of weekends only. “We’ll be open Thursday, Friday and Saturday.” Jacobs says she had been in negotiations with a local restaurateur interested in buying the business from her. “But we couldn’t come to terms,” Jacobs says. The business, she says, is still for sale.

The original post follows.

“Don’t believe everything you hear,” says Joy Jacobs, the owner of the R Bar in the West Bottoms. Jacobs was responding to the rumor that Saturday will be the final night for the beautifully restored venue that she created as a saloon, music hall and restaurant.

But Saturday will be the last night for the R Bar as it was originally conceived: Beginning on October 29th, the R Bar will only be open on Friday and Saturday nights. There will still be music, says Jacobs, and cocktails and a limited menu of dishes, including the return of the R Burger. “It was a struggle this past year to get people to come down here on weeknights,” says Jacobs, who was in the saloon almost every night herself. “It’s sad,” she says, “but I had to get my life back.”

Jacobs and her partner Lisa Morales are parents to 22-month-old Hudson Fite Jacobs and Joy said that she wasn’t seeing either of them very often. “I want to be able to spend time with my family and hang out with friends too,” Jacobs says. “I needed more balance in my life.”