Untitled Art, which this article shows, has them and they generally do everything well. Read more

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It’s not specifically food, it’s the type of food they serve. And I’m specifically talking about the bars in my area that I perceive as dives. There aren’t many in SoCal anymore, as most of our bars would rather charge $16 for a small mixed drink and pretend to be more boujee than they really are. Read more

I consider a Miller Lite and a heavy handed pour of Jagermeister to be hazing of the noobie. Read more

Bonus points for puns, like “Beyond a reasonable grout” written in the grout lines of the tile. Read more

There is a bar in my town that is for sure a dive bar. But it’s nuts because the owner is on oxygen so he rigged this sort of air line into the other room on a pivoting hook from the celling the way you would have compressed air in auto shop. Actually I haven’t been there in years that dude’s probably dead but man was… Read more

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LOL which one PTar or the others? I always liked PTar, never went to the other 2. I don’t dance, and this is a college town so most of the bars lean more towards dance club than bar. PTar is just a good old fashioned straight up BAR. It was far enough from campus that most college kids weren’t going to drive to a…

Uh, who knew, my living room is a dive bar.  Read more

Oh, man. These are good. Read more

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My local in Chicago, Side Street Saloon in the East Lakeview neighborhood, ticks all the boxes for a dive and I couldn’t be happier. I’ll be heading over in an hour and I guarantee I’ll know almost everyone. Probably 90%+ of the patrons either live w/in walking distance of the place or used to live within.  Read more

One word: carpet. Read more

A lot of people already covered what makes a great dive. However, my one bonus point item would be for a dive bar to have a jukebox. Not an internet enabled, app connected jukebox, but an actually coin(or dollar) activated juke box. I’m not even elitest about the music on there. As long as I can pick from a carousel… Read more

At a good dive bar, there will be regulars who help with some of the tasks the staff need to handle. Think trash removal, filling the ice well, etc.
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The real thing for a dive bar is now a thing of the past. A good dive bar in the past was always permeated with clouds of tobacco smoke. No more smoking in the bars these days. The smell of beer and the smoke clouds were what made the place special. Just how it was when smoking was a part of life in general and a near… Read more

We had a local dive, that sadly closed, called The Ptarmagin, referred to as PTar that was the best.  Dark kind of dingey vibe, quite low key and cheap drinks.  We also have a couple on called Chaps, and one called Wheels, that 100% look like a shithole biker bar where your likely to get shot or stabbed.  In reality… Read more

The best bar in Las Vegas, The Silver Stamp (Arts District) is a pretty new place. But you’d never know walking in. The owners made it look like a dive bar. Tacky beer light signs, wood-paneled walls, a tub of picked eggs on the bar and a carousel of hot dogs rolling around on the back bar, all the Dad beer you could… Read more