"The first dive bar you go into is the definition of a dive bar, and everyone goes into a different dive bar first"
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Programming note: Thanks to everyone who joined me, Jessica Infante (Brewbound) and Kate Bernot (Good Beer Hunting/Craft Beer & Brewing) on Clubhouse the other week. We’re doing another edition of BEER BYLINERS this Wednesday (5/12) at 7pm EST on ***Twitter Spaces*** to talk about the beer industry’s latest headlines, trends, and whatever else comes up. Follow me (<a href="https://twitter.com/dinfontay">@dinfontay</a>) and mark your calendars. See you there!<br/><br/>There was a dive bar by the old Thrillist offices in Soho called Milady’s. It closed in 2014 and everyone was pretty bummed about it, but as the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/dining/miladys-a-soho-stalwart-shuts-its-doors.html">pointed out</a> in its eulogy of the joint, the neighborhood had long since turned into “a high-priced outdoor shopping mall.” How’s a lovely, unremarkable little corner bar like Milady’s supposed to make rent selling $2 Genny Creams when there’s a Prada flagship up the block and most of the people who live nearby are too rich and tasteless to deign drink in such a hole in the wall? It’s not supposed to, is how. <br/><br/>This line from the NYT piece, a dispatch from Milady’s last night in business, always stuck with me:<br/><br/>Some patrons dropped in briefly to genuflect and then left. Others vowed to stay until closing time at 4 a.m. Where they would go afterward, or tomorrow, or next week, was anybody’s guess.<br/><br/>Anybody’s guess indeed. Things have not been great for America’s dive bars in the intervening seven years since Milady’s closed, and the pandemic has of course <a href="https://www.eater.com/2020/6/22/21294949/dive-bars-struggling-social-distancing-takeout-food-safety-coronavirus-covid-19">not helped matters</a>. There are a dozen reasons why dive bars are in distress all over the country, but they all ultimately point back to a simple capitalist
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"The first dive bar you go into is the definition of a dive bar, and everyone goes into a different dive bar first"
Miss Dina