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South Carolina Dive Bar Guide

The blend of world-class food and divey drinks in Charleston suits the South Carolina vibe

Dive Bar-Friendly Southern Confines (Charleston & Beyond)

For now, our recommendations related to South Carolina must come with a bit of caution as we’re overly-indexed on Charleston. While Charleston is no doubt a quintessential South Carolina experience home to a great set of dive bars, the rest of the state doesn’t exactly follow the same exact template, nodding to a variety of dive bar type that may not be immediately apparent in the list below.

But we talk about what we know and our trips to Charleston have been filled with great food, excellent beer and some of the state’s best dive bars. An alley is always a fun way to enter a dive bar and Burns Alley Tavern is the city’s resident example that proves the rule, a deceptively cavernous bar that may not be city’s most grimy but is still worth the short walk down a friendly-looking alley.

Gene’s Haufbrau is a very different Charleston dive bar, covered completely in wood paneling (always welcome) and serving up better-than-dive-bar-standard food (we’ll take it). Recovery Room, Cutty’s, Charleston is filled with excellent options. Beyond the state’s jewel city, this is The South in all of its laid back, unassuming dive bar glory and the balance of South Carolina is filled with bars that very much live up to that standard.

As we do a better job of branching out beyond Charleston, our recommendations for the best dive bars in South Carolina can be found below.

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Charleston

Top Rated Dives

15 Dive Bars

We have not had the great pleasure of getting to every possible dive bar (life goals), so inevitably there are great bars that we simply haven't been able to get to yet. The list below includes noteworthy dive bars that by all accounts look amazing but do not have a review associated with them just yet.

Burns Alley Tavern

Charleston, South Carolina

354B King St, Charleston, SC 29401

(843) 723-5813

Cutty's

Charleston, South Carolina

227 St Philip St, Charleston, SC 29403

(843) 720-0300

Gene's Haufbrau

Charleston, South Carolina

817 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, SC 29407

(843) 225-3044

Recovery Room Tavern

Charleston, South Carolina

685 King St, Charleston, SC 29403

(843) 727-0939

Sand Dollar Social Club

Folly Beach, South Carolina

7 Center St, Folly Beach, SC 29439

(843) 588-9498

The Griffon Pub

Charleston, South Carolina

18 Vendue Range, Charleston, SC 29401

(843) 723-1700

Tin Roof

Charleston, South Carolina

1117 Magnolia Rd, Charleston, SC 29407

(843) 571-0775

Florida

Top Rated Dives

50 Dive Bars

Georgia

Top Rated Dives

8 Dive Bars

North Carolina

Top Rated Dives

27 Dive Bars

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