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Lot o points [162129]
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Local dives that you must go to at least once?
May 9, 2019, 3:23 PM
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I got the Zorba Lounge in Greenville - Stone and Washington. Get the steak sandwich.
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All-In [35541]
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Re: Local dives that you must go to at least once?
May 9, 2019, 3:24 PM
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Red Lobster
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The Nu Way & Ikes
May 9, 2019, 3:27 PM
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Are not the dives they used to be but the food is much better than back then too.
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Oculus Spirit [78789]
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here is my story
May 9, 2019, 3:28 PM
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I haven't been to Zorbas in years and we were going to gville to see the Wobblers and the plan was to go to Zorbas beforehand. Anyway they were closed for vacation or something so went to the taco place across the street and I ordered wrong there
Wobblers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG95o70xEZY
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Probably not a popular opinion...
May 9, 2019, 3:29 PM
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But there is no right order at Willy’s Tacos. Overrated in my opinion. But somehow hugely popular.
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I hole fartedly agree
May 9, 2019, 3:32 PM
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They don’t sell tacos, they sell hipster on a tortilla.
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Re: I hole fartedly agree
May 9, 2019, 3:40 PM
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Hyman’s***
May 9, 2019, 3:37 PM
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Sloan St. Tavern
May 9, 2019, 3:56 PM
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When Jimmy is there drunk.
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Oculus Spirit [82752]
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Great place.***
May 9, 2019, 4:39 PM
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Not bad but Sloan St < Backstreets.
May 9, 2019, 4:48 PM
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And both are < the Gameroom.
RIP Snake.
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Thirsty Beaver in Charlotte.
May 9, 2019, 4:01 PM
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It's the epitome of dive bar. You want food? There's a bowl of stale pretzels on the bar.
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Re: Thirsty Beaver in Charlotte.
May 9, 2019, 4:26 PM
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Is The Comet still open? Used to go to that place every weekend for the music & beer. And their burgers were dámn good too.
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Yep, Comet is still there are they do a pretty good job
May 9, 2019, 4:35 PM
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lining up local music. It's not the dive that the Beaver is by any stretch, but it's a very cool joint in its own right.
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Good to hear
May 9, 2019, 4:39 PM
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I’ll jave to stop by there on my next trip. Spent many a weekends walking back up Park Rd heading home for the night.
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Lenny federal Band every Friday night is a Charlotte
May 9, 2019, 4:46 PM
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institution. I think Lenny was around playing music when God was a toddler.
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Highlander N. Augusta. Where I met my wife.
May 9, 2019, 4:43 PM
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Used to go many a Friday night at 2am. They closed at 6 am. I see now they close at 2am.
https://www.pubhighlander.net/
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That fine establishment is most certainly not a DIVE sir!
May 9, 2019, 4:50 PM
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Mah knickers dere were serving Guinness and Bass back in da day when that ##### was usually only available across the pond.
They are to be ever honored.
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Oculus Spirit [82752]
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Bass on tap even. Walked home many
May 9, 2019, 5:19 PM
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a morning as the sun was coming up to Hammond Hills.
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We used to go there after King George Pub would close ....
May 9, 2019, 7:48 PM
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On Thurs (half price pint night)
not sure how I used to function at work on Fridays.
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Re: Bert’s Bar on Sullivan’s Island was great but now
May 9, 2019, 5:23 PM
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If it hurts, go to Bert’s.
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Chicago has a lot
May 9, 2019, 5:11 PM
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We've got everything from the pure dives where anybody not dressed like a member of pipefitters Local 157 is going to get stared at until they leave, to "dives" that were built a couple weeks ago that serve $100 bottles of wine.
I like Rose's Lounge mostly for the grandma's basement feng shui combined with the spinster cat lady smell and the jukebox from 1993. Rossi's Liquors doesn't even look like a bar from outside on State St. in River North, but it's the least pretentious bar downtown. Then there's Zakopane, which is a Polish-owned joint where most of the patrons don't speak English. Finally, there's Woodlawn Tap way down in Hyde Park, which is one of the only bars near the University of Chicago, and which serves only popcorn and Ball Park hotdogs.
Rose's Lounge in all its glory:
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Recovery Room in Charleston
May 9, 2019, 6:13 PM
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I used to live within walking distance of there and spent MANY Saturday nights chugging PBRs and doing coke in the bathroom with the hipsters.
The Griffon downtown Charleston...but it's gotten so much recognition over the years that it doesn't really feel that local until after midnight when all the food/bev crowd meets up after they get off work.
Uncle Louies in the Vista in Columbia. Jakes in 5 points...other than that, I don't eff with bars in Columbia.
Random Tap in Elgin is a craft beer place but has a it of a dive feel. Gadgets in Lugoff of 601 going towards Camden. It's got a honkey tonk feel.
I don't frequent Charlotte much...but Jeff's Bucket Shop is fun....and this isn't really a dive bar...but Soul Gastrolounge is one of the cooler spots I've gone to lately.
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Zorba still has the best steak sammich in the history of
May 9, 2019, 7:19 PM
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the universe. I ate there weekly in the 80s thru mid 90s. Went last year for first time in 20 years and same great steak sammich, same cheesy tacky bar decor. I've been out of the dive scene for so long I can't make a legit suggestion anymore, however I was a professional back in the day.
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