The food is very very good here. One of the best burgers I've had (outside of Wingharts, seriously WINGHARTS). It had a great char-grilled taste. I don't think I've really ever had a horrible experience here but I've never had one that really stood out either. They have Arsenal Cider on tap (which is ALWAYS a plus for me). The drinks are decently priced, they have a little seated area separate from the bar and it also has a couple TV's for you sports-minded people. The bar has several TVS above it as well. i've been in this location several times, back when it was Gino's then that terrible gastro pub that lasted for way too long (the owner was a misogynistic pig and made some very creepy passes at myself and other women), and now this Dive Bar & Grill. I'm pleased with it being Dive, the food is good the drinks are cold everything is great! I will definitely say that they are ALWAYS busy and sometimes it's hard to get a table. Sucks for me. Great for them! read more

Had a really great time at Happy Hour yesterday! The half price "tiny" tostados were anything but tiny! The pork was tender and well seasoned. $3.50 smirnoff vodka drinks along with 2$ off drafts. The waitress was very nice, but very busy! She was running her butt off... word to the wise, get there before 5pm to get a seat! It gets packed in a hurry. The pretzel sticks and zucchini fries were also great! I had the beer cheese with the pretzels. Although the name suggests it may be a hole in the wall, the interior is remodeled, and nice tables, bars, lighting, floors, etc. Speaking of the floors... to put it as a yinzer... VERY SLIPPY! I almost fell, and had I had a few more cocktails, I may have been on the floor! Not sure why... maybe someone forgot to mop? Anyways, I'll be back I'm sure soon. read more

The food was delicious, and the waitress was awesome! We went on a Wednesday afternoon and it wasn't busy at all.

Always love a new brunch spot! This menu offers everything under the sun and believe me, my table tried just about everything! My favorite item I test tasted was the chorizo burrito. I will definitely be ordering that next time or building my own breakfast bowl. The only reason I am giving this place 4 stars is because, if you are offering a place for brunch an unlimited mimosa or Bloody Mary deal is a must! read more

Largest food menu in Lawrenceville. Incredible signature drinks. Excellent atmosphere. This place just opened up but already my new favorite. This is just what upper Lawrenceville needed. Half off apps during happy hour ( mon-fri 5-7 and sat+sun 9-11). Can't wait to try everything on the menu! read more

Ideal intimate event location for party of like 8-10 people. Menu has everything you could possibly want and all flavorful options. Serving size is generous. Potato tots are like dessert and so flipping' good. Had the thai wrap - A++ and the Thai burger (A+) ((needless to say I'm on a Thai kick)) Service is awesome. Both times went between 12-3 on the weekend, and the place wasn't busy at all so the atmosphere was quiet and somewhat intimate. At other times, I'm sure it gets busy and probably a bit loud, but, I suggest you go and find out for yourself! I will definitely be back to this place - and often. read more

Went to Dive Bar for happy hour and really enjoyed it. Love the beer list! The appetizers were big portions and half off during happy hour, which was great. I will definitely be back for happy hour soon. read more

Love this place. Food is great and fresh. The beer selection is very nice. Highly recommend

Not from the area, asked a couple of ladies at a job site, they advised to come here. I was not disappointed, had the porky VS the hamburger, excellent pulled pork, on top of a massive burger. Definitely a great place to get your eat on. read more

Went here for the first time last night on a whim and was impressed. I only got the fried pickles even though I wanted everything on the menu, but they were some of the best I've ever had. The batter was different than most but delicious and their ranch seemed to have a light dill flavor to it which I enjoyed. Service was kind of slow but it was busy. I can't wait to come back to Dive. read more

Wow!! What delicious burgers !! And interesting combinations that really work all for a very reasonable price! Camburger was incredible and the sweet potato tater tots were excellent! Really good service also for a busy Saturday night! Can't wait to go back! Very impressive selection of many things !!! read more

Found this place on our way to light up night. Food was good. Table maintenance could be better. Busy and bustling. Good find. We had burger (but dry per my husband), Cobb salad (good), fried zucchini was fresh and good. Hamburger soup a bit like paste. read more

We started (or tried to start) with some happy hour nachos. I ordered the fajita quesadilla and my fiance got the southern comfort. Both were good, but nothing to write home about. Our appetizer didn't arrive until after our quesadillas as the waitress realized she hadn't brought them to us until she delivered our food. Those things happen sometimes so we were understanding. I will give this place another chance because the service was good, the food was okay, and the atmosphere was good. You also can't beat 1/2 price apps and drafts for their happy hour! read more

I moved to the Burg about 2 months ago and have already been to dive 4 or 5 times. It's my fiancée and i's favorite Sunday night dinner spot. Plenty of classic gastropub type options as well as some lighter options for the lady. I get the Burger Bowl every time and it's the bomb. Ground up burger patty, cheese and fixins served over your choice of chips or fries. I add an over easy egg for extra runny, sloppy goodness. Pretty solid beer rotation also. read more

I love this place. Great menu and wonderful staff. I love the mini sliders. It's a rest upscale take on a traditional dive bar. The bartenders are gracious and knowledgable about their menu and drink selection. One of my favorite spots in Pittsburgh. read more

Went there with a group of friends this past Saturday night and had a great experience. We had a bigger group but they were able to accommodate us right away. Ordered the pretzel sticks with cinnamon butter, loaded croquettes and calamari and all were very good. The cocktails were also great. We happened to be there during the "reverse happy hour" from 9 - 11 pm so we got great deals on the apps and drinks. Our server was very attentive and friendly and even gave each of us separate checks without us asking, which was unexpected since the place was busy. Great food, service, and drinks! read more

Really tasty food. Lots of menu choices, fair pricing and interesting cocktails. I'll go back.

We order takeout from Dive on a weekly basis, and it never disappoints! Their wings are fantastic, and you have to try one of their "I hate vegetables" bowls. Yummy! read more

I had the fried bologna sandwich and it was excellent. Very friendly place and would recommend it to anyone!

Great breakfast spot, loco moco, el toro burrito were terrific have been here for dinner aswell never disappointed

Have been at Dive Bar twice now and have nothing but great things to say. You know how servers can make or break an experience? Well Clint (the owner) must've taken great care in the interviewing process. Make sure you ask for Jess or Mel when you go. They're at table-side every time you need them and show up the minute you are contemplating another drink or refill. Last time in I had the "Hangover" a whole big bunch of Pittsburgh awesomeness that makes your meal. Fries are to die for. My wife had a grilled cheese that included multiple cheeses and "Performance enhancing" bacon! The atmosphere is friendly and fun, quiet enough for casual conversation, yet busy enough to feel the energy of a bustling dining and night-life experience. I would recommend Dive Bar to anyone from the area and visitors to the 'Burg' as well. Kudos, Clint! read more

Visited on a Saturday evening. A/C made the place comfortable. Family all liked their entrees. Friendly waitress and food came out quickly even with the place pretty full. read more

Been here a few times. Good food. Chicken parm sandwich is very good. Wings are good too!

We've eaten the there for mother's day, Easter Sunday brunch and many times in between...the could is as great as the atmosphere. You have to try the pulled pork potato croquettes for the appetizer...yum! read more

The pulled pork nachos are a sloppy mess of deliciousness. Wings and burgers are just a notch above every other wing and burger joint. A great place to order takeout from on game day! read more

Dive has a GREAT happy hour special complete with cheap drafts and smirnoff drinks. Most appetizers (which are full meal sized, by the way) are half off as well. Can't go wrong! I do find it amusing how "hipster" the establishment seeks to feel with tattooed employees and rustic decor... yet much of the clientele is overtly B&T, sigh (not Dive's fault). The food is good, not amazing- but for the happy hour special, it's totally a bargain. Not a fan of the nachos with soggy amusement park cheese. read more

OK so I live really close and its a mission of mine to visit every restaurant on Butler. I started with this restaurant and I was happy that I did. I ordered the wings and the Professor Sandwich. Lets start with the wings. I ordered them naked with the thai chili sauce on the side. They were perfectly cooked and the sauce was amazing. Next was the Professor, A breaded chicken sandwich with Canadian bacon and thousand island dressing. Super Satisfying with good flavors. The server was really awesome and always had my iced tea filled. Better yet when I got the bill I saw that the wings were half-off because they do this awesome happy hour all week. I think 5-7 all their apps are half off. That was just the icing on the cake for me. Don't be put off by some of the more negative reviews because this place is really solid and is worth a try read more

I was admittedly apprehensive because it's called Dive Bar and is in Lawrenceville, so I assumed it would be full of insufferable hipsters and have fourteen dollar "libation" cocktails. Boy was I wrong. The food is great, reasonably priced but the specials make it straight up cheap (half off food on Sunday nights? that's nuts, love it). Solid beer selection as well. The restaurant side is comfortable and they have TVs positioned well. So far have tried the mac and cheese (delicious, not too rich and not too garlicky), the fish and chips entree (the fish isn't too heavily battered like a lot of places and actually has flavor to it, the fries are great) and the Castro sandwich (their version of the cuban, the pickle spears are a nice touch, super tasty). Service has been good, and we will definitely be back. Bonus that it's in Upper Lawrenceville so it's quieter and much easier to find parking than below the cemetery on Butler, seems like some of the people from that side must be afraid to go that far up the street, their loss. read more

A great addition to our neck of Lawrenceville. I generally work late and hit this place on my way home. The staff is always friendly and certainly not bitter about a late order which I really appreciate. The food is solid for bar food and I've had a pretty decent variety of things off their menu. Good burger. Good fish sammich. Good fries. Definitely glad to have this place in the neighborhood. read more

First time here with a large group of 16. They were very accommodating and did not seem annoyed in the least with the large group. The food menu has a large selection to choose from. I got a Cobb salad my husband got the knuckle sandwich both of which was pretty big in portion size and very reasonably priced. We each had 2 drinks, him craft beers, me a Dive-Tini, and Orange Dragon. The Dive-Tini was mainly Riesling, but still tastey the Orange Dragon was much better. The only thing I regret is not trying the Sweet Potato tots and having more to drink. We will definitely come back here in the near future. read more

Happy Hour is the time to go here. Great food, solid prices on cocktails, and semi nested into the cornucopia that is now Lawrenceville.

Friendly and prompt service. We sat at the bar and ordered food as the dining room was full. Good chopped Caesar and average beer selection. Buff chicken looked tasty. Will go back again. read more

The food here was pretty good and I appreciate a place that actually has a Mafalda. Overall pretty good but not that memorable in my opinion

Fairly regular bar. Has a bit of a generic though upbeat atmosphere. Gimmicky food and okay drinks put it lower on my list of Lawrenceville options when so many better options are nearby. read more

Went for lunch the other day. As you walk into the bar there is a wall that separates the bar from the restaurant seating area. The bar is really long. We sat ourselves at a table for two in the resturant area. There are high tables and low tables. We were greeted quickly with a pleasant server. Ordered a Castro sandwich and a Dive bar Elite burger. The burger or should I say burgers were cooked as ordered and very juicy. I had to cut up one burger as no way I could manage two huge burgers, bacon, lettuce and tomato on the bun. Bacon was crispy. The fries were hand cut and delicious. Two fried dill spears were also on the plate which were not my favorites. I just don't like any form of pickle. My guess had a Castro. I'm assuming called a Castro as my guest mention that it was not really a Cuban sandwich. My guest said the sandwich was good but needs improvement. The chips served were very good. The place is clean. I read about the slow service but we encounterd nothing but great fast service. We were their around 11:30 am on Saturday. As we were eating, a steady stream of customers entered the restaurant. Street parking in that area is free. There is a lot adjacent to the bar but its only for bank customers. We would visit again. Dropped one star due to the Castro. read more

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Have been going since they opened and really liked the food was great service good and drinks good a bit pricey but worth it at the time. We liked it so much at first we went two days in a row sometimes. That said the last two times have been not so good not so good at all the portions have gotten very small used to love the fried bologna sandwhich with the big thick slice of meat last two times it was as if it were cut at the supermarket deli terrible. I think the owners need to read these reviews your staff and your food are going down the tube fast don"t let lazy rude staff and the kitchen run a good place into the ground. read more

Not always the best service but consistently good food....Mac and cheese and BBQ is great

Came here for a quick snack but ended up eating a huge meal. Nachos were on point and the buffalo chicken wrap had amazing flavor. Service was quick, friendly, and knowledgeable. Will most definitely be back next time we visit Pittsburgh. read more

This place is just ok. First it was not really what I expected, since it's not actually a "dive bar" as the name implies, but I guess some sort of hipster ironic version of a dive bar that actually serves some fancy drink and food selections (but also some casual comfort food as well). The menu was actually quite overwhelming and all over the place in the options provides, from these "bowls" that consisted of fries with various meats and cheeses and other things on top of them, to ahi tuna sliders, to risotto, to fried pickles. I couldn't detect any sort of common theme to it, as the options included anything from American, southern, Italian, Asian, Mexican, etc. I ordered the gouda risotto with hangar steak (or maybe it was a flank steak). The risotto was actually quite well done and tasty. However, the steak that came with it was a huge disappointment. They asked me how I wanted it cooked and I asked for medium rare, but it was medium well in the center and beyond well done on the edges, with some black charring on the ends. It was quite chewy and flavorless and difficult to eat. If this were a fancier place I would've sent it back, but I felt strange doing that in a place called "Dive Bar" and the server, while prompt and attentive, never actually asked how our food was. We also had the fried pickles app which was tasty. Some of my friends had the sweet potato tots which were really interesting and tasty. They have a number of interesting cocktails on their cocktail menu, as well as a selection of wines and beers. I ordered a cocktail called "The Aristocrat" but it ended up being too sweet and limey for my taste, though it was ok. I really liked the ambiance here, included the background music (including selections such as the theme song from Requiem for a Dream), the artwork, candle chandeliers, and panel of digital flames on the wall, and nice wooden tables, though the giant TV screen with football on it was in rather stark contrast. read more

Love this place...new in Pittsburgh. Found on Yelp....worth the visit love the appetizer