After a pint or two, grab an order of the bar’s Bear Valley Hash-smashed tots smothered with cheddar cheese and green chile-which is perhaps the perfect dive food and one that all your new friends will be glad to share.
Slide into a booth under the gallery wall of good boys and girls from eras past (dogs, not people), or stake your claim to a picnic table on the adjacent patio. and 10 p.m.–2 a.m.) and you’ll be treated like family soon enough. But weather the stare and order a $3 domestic draft off the twice-daily happy hour menu (3–7 p.m. On your first visit to this unpretentious pub tucked behind a Goodwill and a Home Depot off South Sheridan Boulevard and Hampden Avenue, you’ll likely get a lingering up-down glance from the regulars if you’re new to the ’hood. If not, cold beer tastes just as good in the back rooms-equipped with pool and ping-pong tables-or on the spacious back patio replete with cornhole. If a game is on TV, grab a seat in the main room, especially if you can score a spot in the full-size motorboat (yep, really). Its expansive tequila selection pairs well with the space’s nautical motif, but if that’s not your jam, there are plenty of beers on tap, several in the bottle, and enough brown liquor to help you find your sea legs. But being a dive bar is mostly about attitude-and Dive Inn has nailed that comfortable-in-its-own-skin thing. Its mint-condition billiards tables, large HD flat-screens, cleverly rendered scuba decor, on-site food service (provided by chicken-finger-centric Cluck Chicken ), and reliably clean restrooms also make the designation tenuous. Photo by Brittany AnasĪt only nine years old, this Broadway bar probably doesn’t have quite enough age on it to qualify as a true dive. Pearl St., 30 Dive Inn The interior of Dive Inn features a full-size motorboat. Grab a rum and Coke or the longneck of your choice (wells and domestic bottles are $3.25 happy hour Monday–Friday), play a game or two of pool, and then sit back to watch the nightly bacchanal unfurl around you.
Roughly a half block south of Alameda on Pearl Street in West Wash Park, the Candlelight, owned by Dave and Lisa Bryan since 1997, practically guarantees several things on every visit: people smoking on the sidewalk underneath the vintage neon sign a young-ish, hard-drinking crowd and quality ’80s hair metal on the jukebox. 3834 Tennyson St., 30 Candlelight TavernĬall it what you will-the Candlefight and the Mandlelight are two popular nicknames-but we call it a divey Denver institution. Add in a few pool tables, a new jukebox, toe-tapping live music from local bands every Sunday afternoon (starting this year after football season), and you’ve got an institution that’s survived for more than 80 years by being an example of a dive-bar truism: Simplicity is best. Thanks to owners Andrew Peterson and Sarah Kenney-who purchased the bar from longtime proprietress Lisa Sanchez in August 2021-it’s still the type of place where you can find a crew of longtime regulars enjoying too-good-to-be-true specials (see: $1 jello shots and $3 pickle shots every day) while unabashedly cursing John Elway’s performance as president of the Denver Broncos. But despite all of its new neighbors, this legendary bar’s character hasn’t changed. Today, it can be easy to miss amongst all of the trendy endeavors in one of the city’s fastest growing areas. When it opened in 1934, the Berkeley Inn became one of the few businesses operating on Tennyson Street in northwest Denver. 7514 Grandview Ave., Arvada 30 The Berkeley Inn As is appropriate for a true local dive, bartenders favor their regulars-so suck it up and wait or, better yet, go often enough to become one yourself. Bring friends to play pool, darts, or Big Buck Hunter quarters to fill the cozy joint with classic rock, punk, or early ’90s grunge tracks from the jukebox and a tolerance for subpar bathrooms. There’s a standard lineup of draft beer with which to chase 12 Volt’s must-order pickle shot: not liquor followed by a pickle juice back, but actual house-made, pickle-infused vodka from a dispenser behind the bar. This longtime biker bar ’s interior still looks like it hasn’t seen the light of day in decades.
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