The days are gone where you can just belly up to the bar and drink shots and beer. Local dives have been replaced by gastro-pubs and trendy watering holes. Sometimes you just want a bar where you might just get a bottle broken over your head. Check out these five dives and make sure you have a DD.


This article appears in Aug 7-13, 2013.

Jason Beudert has had a dynamic career as a leader with The Walt Disney Company, ESPNZone, The Cleveland Indians, and as a restaurant entrepreneur. He is utilizing his twenty years of hospitality experience along with his love for the Cleveland food scene to contribute exciting and insightful food pieces for Scene. Along with being one of our food writers, Jason is also the food critic for WOIO 19 Action News, and makes a weekly appearance on Q104's Fee's Kompany radio show to promote food and the Scene. Jason is also a contributing writer for Travel + Leisure Magazine.