Sunshine Bar

Not quite as cool as Cave’s, who they share parking lot with, but an equally good juke box and dramatically cheaper booze. Who wants to get 86ed on the cheap? Check this place out.

Perfect dive. Dark. Good music– it shuffles from punk to Beatles to rock to Neil Young and everything in between. Free wifi.

Cheap drinks fer sure. My tap was not expensive. Bartender was fast and knew how to make a drink. But the place is tiny, crowded, bathrooms are not clean, music quality is not great and there is people using their laptops at the bar and you can see them downloading music illegally.

The bitch bartender with the tattoos and the pink hair is a scene queen fucking bitch! She was so rude and can suck my ass! Piece of shit customer service. Horrible first impression of this place. If I could give it zero stars, I would.

Loveee this bar, cheapest bar in town! Great bartenders, shout out to donna, the best! Candace on the other hand, not the best. Long line and she stands around handling personal issues or just smoking a cig… We are in line waiting and she (the bartender) doesn’t even bartend. Other than that… GREAT BAR!!!

Cheap booze, good jukebox selections, nice laid back atmosphere. Awesome people most nights. It is very smoky.

I love dirty bars. and I love sunshine. well– my uncle loves this place, so I have to semi love it too.
Just so you know it’s very smoky in here so please don’t come in all dressed up, smelling good and expecting to leave the same way. You will definitely be scrubbing that smell out of your hair before you go to bed. I hope.
This spot is very tiny and there are regulars that usually occupy the entire bar area. If you’re lucky enough to find an empty chair– belly up and order a drink. The people here are all very chill and they usually know each other– so don’t come in acting crazy and start anything cause you will get your butt kicked out really quick.
All the drinks are ridiculously cheap here. They have Mexican Mondays where Dos Equis, Corona– well, you get it, are all $ 2. They actually have a special every day I just can’t ever remember what all of them are; my uncle on the other hand has them all memorized. If you wanna stay here– they have free pub mix, cheese balls and popcorn in the back corner and a lot of times you can can catch the tamale guy strolling through here peddling his home cookin– they are delicious and make sure you ask for extra green salsa. Sometimes he has tacos too, so just ask.
If you’re like me I like to dive bar hop– so Caves is literally in the same parking lot. Just pay your tab and do your walk of shame out the back door and you’ll see it.

Decent bar for cheap drinks. Bartender might be asshole from time to time. Other than that, not a bad place to chill and meet cool people. Also good place to grab some snacks.

Sunshine just got new carpets for their pool tables and also remodeled the place a little bit.

I definitely come here very often as it’s probably the cheapest place in Arlington to go to for drinks. Especially on Wednesday nights! It doesn’t have the best music to dance or anything but hey, who doesn’t want cheap drinks right???
They also have their new pool tables and they have free snacks like cheeseballs and ground nuts. And they have free foozball!

Hands down, the «Shine» is the cheapest bar in Arlington. Regulars of the shine tend to be nice, but it can get a bit rough around the edges when it gets packed. It reminds you of an old school biker bar but has flairs of hipster college students that make their way through to save a buck. Great jukebox and it shares a lot with «Caves», another cool Arlington joint. Enjoy this cheap dive, bars of this sort are a dying breed.

If Charles Bukowski is in heaven (and we know he is) his bar is likely identical to The Sunshine Bar — possibly the most antithetical name to ever grace an establishment. Not to say I don’t love this bar because I do! Omg, do I love this bar. Mostly because I live in downtown LA where the bars are pretentious and the prices are high. When I get to town, the first thing I do is make a beeline for this bar with my rugged dirty Texas boyfriend in tow (he lives here but that’s another story).
TSB is the direct antithesis of the bars of my neighborhood in LA. (My neighborhood «dive bar» sells PBRs for $ 5 and shots for $ 10. Once you stop gasping for air dear Texas readers, please read on.) Where was I? Oh yeah… whenever I look at the bleak landscape of Texas, the millions of Jesus fish gracing the windows of minivans, the oversized trucks of the undersized men inside them, the vast expanses of chain establishments stretching on endlessly, I start to feel boredom setting in and long for the palm treed oasis that I now call home. Luckily, I have only to step inside the smoke-​choked confines of this fine establishment to remind me why I’ll always love Texas.
The drinks are cheap, the bar tenders are erudite, irreverent and won’t take any crap. The conversation is unforgettable. The jukebox (when functional) is the best curated selection on the planet.
True, I take special care to bring hand sanitizer and the bathrooms are questionable at best. But it’s like going into the wilds on safari or scaling the heights of Kilimanjaro, it’s not always pretty or sweet smelling but it’s usually epic and you’ll definitely come home with some unbelievable stories. Stay un-​classy Sunshine! Xoxo

it is… a ok. It is a total dive though. Smells … like old people. We went during the late afternoon. maybe 2 Vietnam vets in the place. HUGE American flag. Kudos for that.
Bathrooms… very questionable. Bartender pours strong. Cheap drinks!

As the three stars signify, you’re A-​OK, Sunshine Bar. You definitely have your virtues: cozy and mellow space, friendly crowds of regulars, and an awesome juke-​box blaring classic hits. The bartenders are no-​nonsense, but sweet, and your cheap libations encourage guests to keep ordering another round.
Before entering this very confined space, let me warn you about the smoke because I’m pretty sure I’ve never wafted through a heavier cloud in my life. It’s stagnant and thick. I can usually handle bar smoke fairly well, but I kept finding myself using my hand or shirt for ventilation. Kind of a bummer.
Besides having to immediately throw all of my clothes onto my balcony and shower upon reaching home, I enjoyed my time spent at Sunshine! It seemed like everyone in there knew one another, but there wasn’t a cliquey vibe at all. You’d probably be accepted into any faction, if you’re nice!
PS: Sunshine Bar’s «Ruby Red» tastes just like a grapefruit. Citrus-​y, bright, and strong!

Love Sunshine! Always a cast of characters around the bar. Jukebox is full of classics. Can’t forget the free animal crackers and cheese puffs!

Great dive bar tucked away in Arlington. Solid service, interesting locals and ridiculously cheap drinks. Like 1973 cheap.

Oh, shine. I remember the first time I heard about this place. I had just turned twenty-​one and all prior drinking experience had been at big chain restaurants where they didn’t ID. Right off the bat, I was told that there were more puke stains than I could shake a stick at. I was afraid. I was disgusted. I was intrigued.
That said, I love Sunshine. Cheap drinks, good salt of the earth people, awesome jukebox. You can come here in your PJs. There’s no one to impress. There is absolutely no one taking fashion tips from Jersey Shore. The bartenders are awesome and friendly and there’s always a different deal going on every night. Sports on the TVs if you’re into that. Stained pool tables. Friendly customers (usually). Sunshine taught me the beauty of a dive bar.
If there’s too few skinny jeans for you, head to Caves across the way.

If there was a Mexican trash bar for white people, this would be it. Sunshine gets a 5 from me because it’s not afraid to be true dive bar. It is small, dank, rank and filled with people from many walks.
I’ve never had problems visiting here and one thing is for sure, its not a place you will ever have to worry about seeing pop-​color douches. Sunshine is an experience you will not forget. The drinks are cheap. Atmosphere is packed and loud. Televisions play random crap and… the bar is freaking recessed into the floor. Not to mention the ceiling is like 8 foot high in most spots.

Whoa, this place scared the crap out me. Its this little yellow building with no windows. You walk into a dark, smoky room filled with people with prison tattoos. The guy I sat next to had a 5 inch knife in his back pocket. At one point someone yelled, «hey, there ’bout to be a knife fight up in here.» I heard the «C» word a lot in here.
They do a 2 dollar beer of the month. We took a seat at a worn little table with chairs that looked to be about 30 years old. Someone will come and take your order at the stand alone tables. There’s a new punching bag machine and an old jukebox that doesn’t take dollar bills. The bathroom is behind a giant draped American flag.
I’m not kidding, this place was shady as balls. But… I think I’ll be back anyways. It made me feel like I am living on the edge. I recommend stopping in. I don’t recommend hosting a ladies night out here.

This is probably the nastiest of the dive bars on Division Street. I’m not sure how old the place is, but the furniture is definitely original. Tattered office chairs on wheels that swivel and tables that lean, like the old Casa Magnetica at 6 Flags. No windows either, so it’s like being in a basement crack den. The bar is a horseshoe shape and you kinda look down into the pit of it to order a drink. The pool tables are broken a lot so you can play free pool and the jukebox isn’t bad. The waitress is always nice and the people watching is FANTASTIC. Sunshine Bar shares a parking lot with Caves Lounge, so lots of people go back and forth. It’s a good place to grab a drink on your way to shoot up smack at the super scary hotel next door. Don’t share needles!