jessevalenciana
Jesse Valenciana
jessevalenciana
Food & Beer writer born & raised in Chicago, living in Nashville, working in Louisville and always posting on IG, @jessevalenciana

There are definitely options for N/A beverages, but I stick to N/A beer because I personally love beer. Read more

I love Big Butte and I cannot lie. I’m going to have to look out for that. Read more

I love the spots that have the urinal right next to the toilet with no divider. I’d be lying if I said I never had a convo with someone during our respective bathroom duties... Read more

The out of season promotional materials from liquor producers is so on point! Read more

Hot damn! That’s amazing in the most terribly funny, disgusting, oddly charming and impressive way. Read more

That’s what I thought, but then every subsequent time I visited they would remember me, ask how Chicago was doing and serve me my Lite and Jaeger. That went on for over a decade. Read more

Carpet on the walls is always the cherry on top, because you know damn well that shit hasn’t been vacuumed, like, ever. Read more

I’ve been to enough dive bars to know that some of those places still allow smoking but for regulars only because they won’t rat them out and get them fined. Read more

They’re like a shitty cousin; if a stranger called them shitty, there would be a problem. Read more

100% agree. I’ve had to carry things up basement stairs and help bounce drunkards out of some dives. Read more

My Vegas dive is the Double Down Saloon. I love that spot. Atomic is great too, but I don’t really consider that a dive. Read more

Not taking anything away from your skills, by any means. I just know I’m gonna get some cocktail with egg whites at a dive.  Read more

I love me a good lounge. If I’m in a new town, I seek them out because they’re usually a dive. Read more

Next time I’m out there I have to check it out. My favorite dive in Manhattan in Jimmy’s Corner in Times Square Read more