🥃 Dive bars

Legendary DTES dive and punk venue, dim and unpretentious with cheap pours and zero polish.

Old-school Main Street dive pub, dim and divey with cheap beer and no pretense whatsoever.

Gastown's oldest pub leans dive: cheap, casual and unpretentious in a historic brick room.

Quirky, dim bar with a gritty dive personality and cheap drinks, light on pretension.

East Van dive icon with super-cheap drinks, free pool and loud live music. Pure dive cred.

Gritty, cheap pub in the historic Patricia Hotel, long beloved by the punk and metal crowd.

No-frills neighborhood pub with cheap pints and a dim, unpretentious dive-bar atmosphere.

Cheap, no-frills pub with a divey, lived-in feel and stiff inexpensive pours.