Dive Bar entertainment in USA
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Jimmy's Corner
This skinny, welcoming, completely unpretentious dive off Times Sq is run by an old boxing trainer, as if you wouldn’t guess by all the framed photos of boxing greats (and lesser-known fighters too). The jukebox covers Stax to Miles Davis (plus Lionel Ritchie’s most regretful moments), kept low enough for post-work gangs to chat away.
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Corner Pub
This place will always be ‘Weggie’s’ to the devoted clientele. Whatever the name, this loungie dive has been a neighborhood fixture for decades. The recent upgrade means that the counters are cleaner and the kitchen serves some seriously edible grub. Three-dollar bottles of beer are still the drink of choice. We lament the name change, but we appreciate the upgrade to the bathrooms.
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Delux Café & Lounge
If Boston has a laid-back hipster bar, this is it. The small room on the 1st floor of a brownstone comes covered in knotty pine paneling, artwork from old LPs and Christmas lights. A small TV in the corner plays silent cartoons (not sports), and a noteworthy kitchen serves incredible grilled-cheese sandwiches and inspired comfort food, including coleslaw that you actually want to eat.
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People’s Republik
Outside, older, drunk expats discuss with bravado the merits of deer hunting (neither had done it) while sitting under the Soviet-inspired signage of this watering hole for townies, bike messengers and students. Inside, find darkness, a few dartboards in good repair and seats arranged around a U-shaped bar, allowing for awkward stares or new friendships depending on your approach.
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Charlie’s Kitchen
Charlie’s has two floors: downstairs is tamer and upstairs is where the scene thrives. It’s packed by 9:30pm on a Saturday night; come inside to hear the Cars, Descendants and Pixies played at inordinate volumes from a rock-oriented jukebox. Otherwise drink Pabst and eat patty burgers and lobster rolls while bumping the tattooed elbows of your screaming neighbors.
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Shay’s Pub & Wine Bar
A pleasant basement-level bar, Shay’s is a long-standing favorite among Harvard graduate students. It’s a small wooden pub where you’ll sit on a stool and pretend to look thoughtful. Out front is a small brick patio full of smokers jockeying for one of the few tables. Shay’s stocks a decent list of English beers and a limited selection of wine.
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Welcome to the Johnsons
Set up like a ’70s game room – a bit sleazier than the one on That ’70s Show – the Johnsons’ irony still hasn’t worn off for the devoted 20-something crowd. It could have something to do with the $2 Buds till 9pm, the pool table, the blasting garage-rock jukebox or the plastic-covered sofas.
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Creek
Good for a see-what-happens evening, this local bar has a burrito grill in the back and open-mic and comedy nights, plus films and live performances held in the makeshift theater upstairs. The crowd is a lively mix of Queens-forever locals and newbie pioneers. Occasional live shows tend to favor the distortion pedal.
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TC’s Lounge
This extraordinarily awesome dive features a collection of faded posters of near-naked celebrities (Farrah Fawcett), old beer ads, pinball and ugly bathrooms. A truly mixed crowd ranges from rising-class Brazilian laborers and Berklee students to hard-core Sox fans. Expect cheap drinks and only two beers on tap.
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Rudy’s
The big pantless pig in a red jacket out front marks Hell’s Kitchen’s best divey mingler, with cheap pitchers of Rudy’s two beers, half-circle booths covered in red duct tape, and free hot dogs. A mix of folks come to flirt or watch muted Knicks games as classic rock plays.
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Bukowski Tavern
This sweet-ass bar lies inside a parking garage next to the canyon of the Mass Pike. Expect sticky wooden tables, loud rock, lots of black hoodies and more than 100 kinds of beer. In God we trust; all others pay cash. That goes for the outlet in Inman Sq, too.
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Holiday Cocktail Lounge
No $12 cocktails at this long-term classic bad-behavior HQ – just a mix of penny-pinching alcoholic guys, students on a budget and dive-hounds who find crotchety service, a mix of nostalgia and $4 rum-and-cokes the perfect night out.
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Subway Inn
Booze in this part of town for this cheap? Count us in. Occupying its own world across from Bloomingdale’s, this old-geezer watering hole is a vintage cheap-booze spot that, despite the classic rock and worn red booths, harkens to long-past days when Marilyn Monroe dropped in.
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