#1 The Jackpot - The girls both enjoy this place. With a column like this: http://www.newsobserver.com/2920/story/1272785.html and reviews like these: http://triangle.citysearch.com/profile/35677408/raleigh_nc/jackpot.html there is no wonder this place made number 1 on my list.
#2 The Goat - When I stumbled across this gem in my research I asked the girls if they had given this place a try. One replied, "Yes, that place is totally a DIVE." Awesome. With an outside entrance that resembles an old strip club and specials like these, you can't miss: "SUNDAY - Mystery Beer Night! Our most popular night of the week. We fill trash cans with random beers; anything form Strohs to colt 45 to Guiness pub draft; you never know what you are gonna get. The bartender picks the beer out of the can and you get what he grabs for a $1....and try something off our "Bizarro Liquor Shelf" (Random liquors and liquers that you won't find at other bars, that we sell for half off!" OR THURSDAY - "Mystery Draft night. $2 16oz drafts. (We take all of our regular kegs off tap and replace them with random drafts and put a generic tap handle on them. You never know what you will get!)" ALL INFO TAKEN FROM: http://goat-bar.com/
#3 Deep South: $1 Busch Light every day, garbage can sandwiches, and tons of writing on the wall put this place in the list of great dives in Raleigh. The pictures do show a lot of pretty people though, so I guess I could be wrong about its dive worthiness, but hey there is nothing wrong with a little eye candy: http://www.deepsouththebar.com/
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Office Tavern = http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-office-tavern-raleigh
Slims = http://www.myspace.com/slimsdowntownraleigh
A place actually called The Dive http://www.myspace.com/DIVEbarRaleigh
Slims = http://www.myspace.com/slimsdowntownraleigh
A place actually called The Dive http://www.myspace.com/DIVEbarRaleigh
