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Travel + Leisure Names the TOT one of Dallas’ Nine Best Dive Bars

Dallas is a city full of talented mixologists and creative, ever-changing cocktail menus. It is also a place where the cost of said drinks can cost as much as a meal (think $108 bowls of craft punch at Midnight Rambler and $18 margaritas at Stampede 66). While there is a time and a place for luxurious drinks, the same can be said about a reliable watering hole where you can post up and start a tab. Regardless of the neighborhood, this town has a full roster of dive bars where, lucky for you, the drinks are cheap and the food is good. Here are our picks.

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PureWOW Ranks the TOT Among Top 7 Dive Bars to Visit in Dallas

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Dallas has no shortage of chic bars that sling the craftiest of craft cocktails. And while we love a classy joint where we can sip a cucumber-citrus margarita, we equally love a no-fuss joint where we can sip a $3 beer. Without further ado, our list of the best dives bars in the city.

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Bar Stories: The TOT Baseball Bat

Nate Pike, creator of the TOT baseball bat

Did you ever wonder what the story was behind the TOT baseball bat? Well, about 5 or so years ago, a fella named Nate Pike was hanging out here with his buddies and suddenly decided that he wanted to carve a baseball bat. Pike did the honors, and then wondered what to do with it. They decided to engrave it to the bar and present it as a gift. And guess what, here’s Pike!

Playboy.com Ranks the TOT Among Dallas’ Top Dive Bars

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Because Dallas’ Uptown district should be avoided like a zombie filled, plague ridden, militarized zone due to the abundance of the lowest of low life forms—the $30,000 millionaire, the local term for a douchebag who works retail, yet drives a low end luxury car; you know, that guy named Chad that you hate because he lives well above his means—we went ahead and listed the 15 best dive bars in Dallas.

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Dallas Observer Ranks the TOT Among the 10 Best Sports Bars in Dallas

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It’s spring, and spring means three very important things: It’s baseball season, the NBA is in the playoffs and it’s patio season. While we pretend the Texas Rangers are worth watching and that the Mavericks aren’t on their way to being swept in the first round, we flock to that hallowed home of sports and smoking-hot takes, the sports bar.

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Preston Hollow People: Time Out Tavern Owner Passes Baton to Longtime Barkeep

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When Aaron Saginaw moved back to Dallas after graduating from the University of Missouri, he thought he’d start working as a copywriter. Today, he owns Time Out Tavern.

“I decided to regroup and take a job in the service industry,” he said. “I though it would be for just one year, and I stayed as a bartender at Time Out for nine years.”

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CraveDFW: Historic Time Out Tavern Sold to Aaron Saginaw

Kevin McCormack and Aaron Saginaw. Photo by Steven Doyle

As of January first the historic, and original sports tavern in North Dallas, the Time Out Tavern (or commonly called The TOT) was sold to Aaron Saginaw from the original owner who is now retired, Kevin McCormack. McCormack purchased the Tavern from the previous owner 26 years ago. The Tavern was originally called the Doll House, which unlike the name might infer was a simple pub owned by Dotty Brown. “It was an old, run down bar with regulars drinking draft beer and a few bottles of whiskey,” said McCormack.

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