As chain restaurants and bougie dining groups moved in, driving up rents and the price of eating and drinking, South End’s small businesses started being driven out. Summer solstice rain parties where it’s suggested you dress to get wet ✅īoston, MA Photography courtesy of Jared Kuzia | Boston MagazineĪnother dive bar that has stood against time and gentrification, Delux Cafe has defied all odds in the South End neighborhood of Boston. Name tags available with glow-in-the-dark markers ✅ Perhaps sometimes referred to as “Pittsburgh’s Original Party Bar,” although this remains unconfirmed as well, this tiny bar just a few blocks away from finer establishments, ticks all the dive bar boxes. Bar11 will be one of many Keystone State taverns on our list. Pennsylvania seems to be the state littered with dive bars. Pittsburgh, PA Photography courtesy of Shelby S | Yelp If you’re looking to add your own masterpiece to the walls of this off-the-radar pub dedicated to America’s 16th president, order a drink and ask the bartender for a set of napkins and pens. We’re talking depictions of Honest Abe as a zombie, riding a bike, and even as SpongeBob Squarepants. At Abe’s on Lincoln on Lincoln Street in Savannah’s National Historic District, napkin after napkin with hand-drawn Abraham Lincoln illustrations tattoo the bar’s wooden beams and centuries-old ceiling. Savannah, GA Photography courtesy of Abe’s on Lincolnįorget about writing your phone number or your next big idea on a napkin. Hop Culture’s Picks for the 19 Best Dive Bars in America Abe’s on Lincoln Who knows, maybe we’ll see your favorite spot on this list next year!įrom a steak sandwich-slinging, acid trip-esque joint in Buffalo to a haunted subterranean bar in Wilmington, from a tiny pub defying gentrification in Oakland to a retro tiki-themed waterfront lounge in Minneapolis, and everywhere in between, here are the Hop Culture and Next Glass team’s top picks for the best dive bars across America. We want to hear from you! Drop us a line and tell us your favorite dive bar and why we should add it to the list. We’ll keep adding our favorites, and include ones from new colleagues, but we can only go so far in our lived experiences. And that’s funny because that’s exactly what we do with the team every year, building on this list for the past three years now. Ask your colleagues to give you their top choices and you’ll probably have ten to fifteen suggestions within minutes. Of course, the beauty of a dive bar is in the eye of the drinker. – Grimy bathrooms with incredible, outrageous writing and graffiti on the walls – Low lighting, Christmas lights, neon signs But in general, if you asked us to make a list of attributes, we’d write something like: The characteristics of a great dive bar can be up to interpretation. What Makes A Great Dive Bar? Photography courtesy of Dino’s In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Heilig Hart And with National Dive Bar Day celebrating our nation’s most iconic hideaways on July 7th, we wanted to show some love to these nineteen memorable saloons. Don’t get us wrong-we still love those beers, but they have their time and place. These off-the-radar neighborhood joints are the places we go when we can’t stomach another milkshake IPA or Cold IPA. The ripped vinyl booths and bar stools reek of spilled beer and nostalgia, and the selections on the jukeboxes approach holiness. Local lore (and cigarette smoke) drip from the walls. And where can you have this incredible experience? At any one of the country’s best dive bars. However, sometimes nothing beats bellying up to a scuffed wooden bar, ordering a boilermaker, and putting back a shot and a can of Hamm’s or Genesee Cream Ale under the decades-old glow of Christmas lights and neon Coors signs. Give us a well-lit space, a bank of stainless steel taps, and a food truck, and we’re happy campers.
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