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Amarillo / Lubbock
Call it Texas panhandle extended, dive bars intersecting with Route 66.
Atlanta
Evolving patchwork of neighborhoods with a rich network of dives underneath.
Columbus
Modern Midwestern city with some profoundly not modern dive bar gems.
Cleveland
The best dive bars come from the richest history, and Cleveland provides.
Jacksonville
There’s something about beach air giving birth to dive bars and Jacksonville is no exception.
Louisville
Southern and Midwestern influences converge to create a patchwork of divey options.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis provides the perfect storm of food, drinking and dive bars, yes, including the Juicy Lucy.
New Orleans
There may be no better city to create dive bars steeped in history, culture and neighborhood uniqueness.
New York
The task of visiting and documenting every New York dive bar is daunting but someone must.
Tampa / St. Pete
Stitched-together cities with deep roots make for fertile drinking ground.
Neighborhood Crawls
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Dive bars with roots.
German Village
Columbus, Ohio
Beer amongst the brick-laid streets.
Lincoln Park
Cleveland, Ohio
As “Cleveland neighborhood” as it gets.
The Bywater
New Orleans, Louisiana
The edge of the world.
Grandview Heights
Columbus, Ohio
Sneaky divey near-suburb.
French Quarter
New Orleans, Louisiana
The search for gems among the rough.
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Top 5 Minneapolis Dive Bars
The Upper Midwest is friendly territory for the classic neighborhood dive bar. Minneapolis in particular is home to a rich tradition of grab-a-burger, hunker down during the winter months-style neighborhood bars that have been in business since Prohibition.
Top 5 Tampa / St. Pete Dive Bars
Liberties have been taken with this list, a collection of Florida dive bars across Tampa, St. Pete Beach, Clearwater and all points south and west of Tampa proper. There’s something magical about the union of a lean-to beach shack and a rustic dive bar, a combination Tampa excels in supporting.
Top 5 New Orleans Dive Bars
Picking a favorite New Orleans dive bar is a bit like picking a favorite child. The confluence of cultural forces that created New Orleans continue today as the backdrop to a rich collection of historic, authentic neighborhood dives.
Top 5 Cleveland Dive Bars
Cleveland’s deep roots can be overlooked at times, a trait that has allowed the classic Midwestern dive bar to thrive there. These are hearty Cleveland dive bars for hearty, unapologetic Cleveland residents.
Top 5 Columbus Dive Bars
Though the city is growing faster than any other in the Midwest, the Columbus dive bar is alive and well. From timeless diner-dive combos to dive bars embedded in residential blocks, Columbus is an underrated dive bar hotbed.
