Thrillist names Babes of Carytown Virginia’s best dive bar

Carytown favorite Babes is many things to many people. For over three decades, this dive has been offering up live music, sand volleyball, dancing, and drag shows, among other programming. National online publication Thrillist has just named the establishment the best dive bar in all of Virginia.

From Thrillist:

There’s something especially heart-warming about a dive bar that also happens to be a gay bar, one that eschews designer jeans and $20 cosmos for bottled beer, karaoke, and a staff that doubles as a welcoming committee for anyone who stumbles inside, regardless of how they identify. Not only does this 32-year-old RVA institution keep it real, it also keeps it rowdy with a sprawling drag-show-ready dance floor aglow with tinted lights and an old-school disco ball, rainbow Jell-O shots, a full menu of the most comforting of comfort food ($1 tater tots, anyone?), and, get this, a back deck overlooking a real-deal beach volleyball court complete with actual sand. Now that’s something to be proud of.

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