Dive Bar — Restaurant in Sacramento

What can I say about the dive bar that won't sound like I'm paid to say it. Like all the bars on K st, this place has a hopping night scene. Loud music and loud patrons yelling over it to be heard. But what made this place special for me was skipping out of work to grab me some zen with the last 30 minutes of happy hour.

The dive bar is definitely not a 'dive bar' in the traditional sense of being a place where your odds of getting pink eye from your bar stool run about 50/50. I strongly urge that when this accursed plague does finally lift from our besieged lands, you swing in and soak up some unique atmosphere and drink something that has a flammable OSHA warning on the glass. Or two, even three. You didn't survive this for a lousy t-shirt. As you walk in, you'll immediately notice it's dark and cool. A few dimly lit lights for ambiance, and above the bar is why. An enormous fish tank filled with all kinds of fat fishes, eels and sharks. Plants waving in the rippling water, bright decorations and yes, every so often a mermaid. It's mesmerizing, maybe throw back a couple shots of Jamison, nurse a pint and just get a half hour of you time before jumping on the train home, fortified for whatever is there for you to greet or face.

I enjoyed those moments of recharging, but equally, if not more, going with co-workers for the fellowship and networking. After the first round, shoulders easing rapidly from the stress and tension of work, the airing of grievances can begin in earnest. Not that we hate the job or even the ones at the job that create seething frustration, just you get it now, how Mike Tyson got to a place where an ear was getting bit off someones stupid face. Peers sympathize, then relay their own ordeals of existing in a world where common sense is actually quite rare. Lots of laughter, anecdotes and resolutions to technical issues have been hashed out in this bar. And during all this merriment and bonding, if watching, you will see eyes all along the bar drawn up, to the hypnotic thrall of tranquility. Fish and kin oblivious or imperiously indifferent to us and our venting, rants and laughter.

The bartenders are all great. Heavy handed with the pours on the hard stuff, they seem almost apologetic that this is a K st bar and must charge K st prices. Decent selection of ales and stouts with a few so hoppy you feel like you should chew it when you take a drink. If you are on a budget, hit their happy hour, last time I went it was $3 drafts and $3 wells.

Location is good, safety wise. Light rail right in front. K st has a heavy police presence to keep Capital, arena, and K safe.. If you leave the safe zone that is K and L St between 7th and 12th you are in mortal danger. You will likely be ripped apart by swarms of zombies high on bath salts and paint thinner. Also I'm pretty sure everything north of F st has been a burning dumpster fire since February. That said, check out See's Candy on L st, across from the capitol!

Check Dive out if you're in the area. Nothing nearby compares. For example, the pizza bar next door is too bright, the decor jarring and chaotic. A stimulate induced manic episode and a Hobby Lobby credit card was key to this success You can marvel at the giant semi-truck smashing out the wall for a while or the pro league cornhole championships on ESPNHD4 before a grim realization occurs... You are NOT going to get another double whisky sour anytime soon because the bartender and staff are prancing, clapping and singing happy birthday to a table of 8 year olds. Way too much free style rapping and beat boxing in my opinion honestly.

You don't want that. Go where the lights are dim, the music is excellent, the prices fair (for downtown) and the fish don't celebrate birthdays. I hope to see you there once we are all Covid-19 vaccinated. I'll buy a pint. We can share our misery about this year of isolation, fear, hate and division. And in doing maybe feel a little bit better, our gazes occasionally drifting up watching the fishies...

So I've been to Dive Bar all of two or three times my favorite part is that they do have mermaids and mermen swimming in a tank above the bar now that is awesome but I did have a very bad experience the last visit I had there me and a group of friends went to celebrate a birthday and as we walked in after waiting in a long line and finally being told that if we paid extra we all can get in ahead of the line so of course we did we go in We Dance the music was good the atmosphere was great and we go to the bar to order drinks and it did take a long time because it was a Saturday night but to our surprise it took so long because one of the bartenders decided to let the other bartenders know that we were cut off what cut off means I really don't know but to our surprise it meant that we could not have any more drinks and that was weird because we never even got one drink but we were being disrespected by the bartender who insisted that we were a group of girls that had too much to drink and in that case that was not true so we were also asked to be escorted out by Security in my opinion I did not feel was fair at all so no we did not agree to leave when we just paid $80 for three people to get into a bar so we did have to argue for about 2 hours just so that way we can get our money back and in the whole missed of that we did not get any drinks and after all of that the bartender decides to say that there was a group of girls before us that was being disrespectful and very drunk and I find it funny that I guess it was a group of African American girls and he basically profiled us as that group of girls in which we were not I thought that was very disrespectful very rude and should not happen to anybody so after that I will not be...

I arrived a little after 10 and was mostly excited to see the mermaid in the tank. After waiting in line for 30 mins and paying $10 each for entry I was expecting it to be worth it. Get inside it is PACKED! My boyfriend and I made our way past the first bar and DJ and decided to order at the bar where the mermaid should have been.

While waiting 10mins for the bartender we seen the mermaid for a second and figured she'd still be there after I got my drinks so I didn't stop to take a picture. Another 5mins go by and two people be served before me when I was clearly there first I get my first drink. We ordered a mai tai and a cran vodka which came out to $18 and were not worth the price given the size of cup but expected. Make our way to where we can clearly see the tank and no more mermaid for the rest of the night (we left at 12:30).

Ordered two 805's since the drinks went quick and we wanted to spend a little more time out and there weren't very cold, not only did my boyfriend have to wait a long time to order the beers but the bartender forgot to give him his card back so he had to continue to wait.

The worst part is the music! The DJ was all over the place. Played E-40, backstreet boys, BABY SHARK -_- ... nothing mixed of flowed well enough for me to get into the grove or even enjoy my time listening. I wish I would have listened to the group of people leaving when they said "don't waste your...