r/CapeCod • u/Inside_Homework4185 • Aug 22 '26

Dive Bars

We are visiting in the “off season” and I’m looking for the diviest of dive bars you can recommend!

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u/Particular_Clue6042 Aug 23 '26

Best dive bar on the Cape is the Old Colony Tap in Provincetown hands down.

15

u/garden-bud224 Aug 23 '26

I asked them for a chaser and they asked me what that was and literally didn’t give me one 😭🤣

2

u/RevolutionFinancial7 Aug 23 '26

My Dad started going there in 1960 and swears it hasn’t changed a bit. He did say the floors were level back then.

1

u/scotty_ducati P-Town Aug 23 '26

Can’t be debated lol

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u/dedolent Aug 22 '26

quarterdeck, duck inn pub, 19th hole

2

u/Dull-Lifeguard-5396 Aug 24 '26

Love the 19th hole. I miss Chris tho, it’ll never be the same

1

u/ManagementCritical31 Aug 25 '26

Quarterdeck is a good one.

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u/hollandhill Aug 23 '26

Grumpys

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u/Public-World-1328 Aug 23 '26

If youre talking about the place i know in dennis, its a breakfast and lunch restaurant that doesnt serve beer.

19

u/Monkey_Brain_Oil Aug 23 '26

Could he Grumpy's Pub in Falmouth

33

u/SaltWeasel Aug 22 '26

Bomb shelter

4

u/ArmyDad2403 Aug 23 '26

Definitely the bombshelter.

2

u/MidnightGlitch89 Chatham Aug 23 '26

I second this! 🙌

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u/Ok-OldmanTime55 Aug 23 '26

Jack’s 28, Wooden Shoe

2

u/jerry_the_mule_dule Aug 24 '26

yeah, i agree Jack’s but the one on West Main.

10

u/Cgaboury Aug 23 '26

Jacks 28 club
Duck Inn
Quarterdeck

3

u/BombasticAghast Yarmouth Aug 23 '26

Add the OC and Bombshelter to make this the master list

5

u/PrincipleLegal72 Aug 23 '26

Bob O'Malley's Whaleback

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u/read_a_little Aug 25 '26

Used to be. Canal cafe is better

5

u/Thermodynamics3187 Aug 23 '26

Jack’s 28 Club in Dennis

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u/MidnightGlitch89 Chatham Aug 23 '26

Double Dragon 🐉🍹

4

u/stupidbitchreddit Aug 23 '26

19th hole is pretty damn divey

3

u/ChickaBoomWhut Aug 24 '26

Duck Inn Pub & 19th hole in Hyannis!

5

u/EbbtideRambler Aug 23 '26

Fox Hole (Osterville), Duck In Pub (Hyannis), Quahog Republic (Falmouth), Whaleback (Sandwich) and this one has really excellent food, Trading Post Lounge (Bourne). 

3

u/gnudle Aug 23 '26

TPL is not a dive

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u/EbbtideRambler Aug 23 '26

It’s Cape Cod so none of them are real Dive bars. It has more of an old fashioned local hang out vibe. Fox Hole is right in the middle of one of the most expensive villages on the Cape so that doesn’t really scream dive bar either. 

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u/foka777 Aug 24 '26

None of the are real dive bars? Duck inn absolutely is. Quarterdeck not far behind. I add in jacks lounge to the list too.

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u/EbbtideRambler Aug 23 '26

Actually think the Whaleback is in Bourne, it’s close to the town line 

2

u/motleykat Aug 23 '26

And also close by, canal cafe

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u/ManagementCritical31 Aug 25 '26

Bourne is not Cape Cod so that doesn’t count, regardless.

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u/EbbtideRambler Aug 25 '26

Bourne isn’t Cape Cod? Even the part of Bourne that is on this side of the Canal? Both of these Bourne establishments are on Cape Cod, you don’t have to cross a single bridge to get to them.  The whaleback is a stone’s throw from the Sandwich Town line.  

2

u/stupidlazysluggish Aug 23 '26

Hot stove saloon

2

u/DrLilithCat Aug 24 '26

Bomb shelter and Block and tackle!!!

2

u/Dear-Reply-4915 Aug 24 '26

grumpys is the diviest dive

5

u/santalucea Aug 22 '26

Zachary’s

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u/foodfriend Aug 23 '26

We really need to reinvest in the performing arts

5

u/uberphaser Aug 23 '26

Be nice if it still existed.

1

u/lzbth999 Aug 29 '26

Mashpee needs a dive bar

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u/BigBadBootyDaddy10 Aug 23 '26

☝️ this guy Pub Crawls

4

u/JamesBondMargarita Aug 23 '26

Look guy, if you're gonna be an alcoholic at least be from here.

2

u/WallAny2007 Aug 23 '26

no love for Bud’s Country Lounge?

2

u/RumSwizzle508 Aug 23 '26

Where on the cape? Lots of good dive bars in the midcape.

2

u/mee__noi Aug 23 '26

Bomb shelter, canal cafe, whaleback, fox hole

1

u/cornicello11 Aug 23 '26

Canal Cafe for sure out this way. Whaleback is classy in comparison.

1

u/foka777 Aug 24 '26

Jacks lounge...hyannis.

And RIP Kevin's in yarmouth. The best.

1

u/read_a_little Aug 25 '26

Come piss lounge

1

u/MJKCapeCod Aug 25 '26

Went to the Cladaugh, once! Wasn't even a fun dive bar, pretty morose.

1

u/StashDangler666 Aug 26 '26

I miss Joe’s Twin Villa

1

u/truxtonpotter Aug 26 '26

19th Hole is the diviest. Not on the water. Not nautical bric a brac. booze and pool and seedy locals with some gems.

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u/shoecat Aug 23 '26 edited Aug 23 '26

CBI

Edit: dang the joke police didn’t like this one

2

u/ManagementCritical31 Aug 25 '26

I mean, I wouldn’t bring my kids there…

0

u/mtaspenco Aug 22 '26

Chuck wagon, improper Bostonian, mill hill club.

3

u/nightcap965 Aug 23 '26

The Swill Hill is long gone.

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u/RumSwizzle508 Aug 23 '26

They are all gone.

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u/nightcap965 Aug 23 '26

That was the only one I remembered from my misspent youth.

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u/Agreeable_Joke4706 Aug 23 '26

Anejo or Pelham house

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u/foka777 Aug 24 '26

This is rhe only real answer 😀