Dino’s

Not a lot to be said, was not worth the trip to get here. Miller light can was $ 3 which was cold. Operators were not very friendly. Don’t bother with this place, there are tons of other… nicer places to go.

Late night diner that serves til 2:30 a.m. And have beer on tap!!! And they play Early 90’s hip-​hop!!! What else do you need!!! Best dive bar I’ve been to!

I’ve had some of the best burgers here. Lately, when the girl cooks my burger it’s terribly over done though. I started asking for it medium-​rare and it fixed the problem. Fries are always mint. Hot fries are incredible. Best burger was cooked by a black dude about a month ago. Whoever that was needs more shifts. It had a perfect crust and a nice pink center. Order a donut, you won’t regret it. Still love this place.

This was such a fun stop during our anniversary trip to Nashville. We walked by on our way to our AirbnB and stopped in for some delicious grub and good drinks. We love the history and the ambiance and my boyfriend was so smitten he bought a hat. The next day we were walking by the alley and didn’t realize we were back at Dino’s when we sat down in the patio area. It’s so beautiful and quiet, a little treasure on a busy street. Love that we made some dog friends while we were there and could enjoy the sunshine and a brew.

Awesome little place, so glad we stopped! We went there at night and it wasn’t busy but they were all nice. Saw someone ordering food and came back the next day to order a burger since it looked so good, it was delicious! The fries were bangin!

Interesting spot in East Nashville. While the burgers are good, I wouldn’t say it’s the best I’ve ever had like many other Unilocalers. I came with a group, the menfolk ordered the Porter Road Burger (obviously made with meat from PR Butcher) and the ladies had cheeseburgers with fries. My burger was a bit undercooked but the fries were amazing, I’ll give them that. They tried to imitate In-N-Out’s animal style fries but didn’t succeed — nothing can compare to those fries. We also ordered a frito pie and it was pretty good!
The food was cheap and the beer was cheap. I wouldn’t go out of my way to come here again but if you’re looking for an affordable meal, this is your place.
Also, there’s a [$h*t ton] of hipsters so brace yourself for that.

ERMEGAD. My husband and I crashed our friends’ date night here, and I’m so glad we did. This was my first time eating here, and I was happy as a clam with my meal.
The ordering system is easy: walk in the door, order food/​drink at the register, sit down and wait for food.
I ordered for me and my husband (because isn’t that what all ladies do?), and chose a hamburger with hot fries for me and a bacon cheeseburger with regular fries for my husband. To drink, we had a Miller Lite and a Stiegl with a side shot of tequila. This all came to a whopping total of $ 32.00.
To preface, I’m not a huge fry fan. I can easily have two or three and then stop eating them. However, my hot fries were INSANE. They had hot chicken sauce/​oil/​Lord knows what that actually is, Velveeta, and griddled onions. It kind of looked disgusting, but I finished every single one of those fries. They had a great heat, and the onions kicked it up a notch.
The burger was a great basic burger with all of the regular toppings. I feel like sometimes it’s harder than it should be to find one of these.
Overall, this is great bar food in a fun/​divey environment for a good price. There was no smoking inside, which is also a plus! I will definitely return for a casual night out with burgers and beers (AND FRIES).

Unpretentious place to grab a burger & beer. We’ve been twice (both times at night) and always found the prices reasonable and the food good. This is the type of place that tells you straight up that they use veleveeta on their fries. Small parking lot and only about 7 or 8 tables.

Pop into dino’s !
Take a break from hip and a vacation to real nashville. Eat a burger with a local you wont be disappointed.

Annnd, just like *that*, the prophecy was fulfilled.* It shouldn’t be this hard to spend money. Walk in. Order. Wait short amount of time for the food paid for. Receive said food sans attitude. It should be easy. Here, it is not. Wish I could say I didn’t see this coming.
*See tip.

I’ve heard that Dino’s is one of Nashville’s legendary dive bars with some pretty good food. We decided to try it on a Sunday after roaming around Oktoberfest. We stopped in around 1:30pm. There were only one other group of people in the place. It’s not very big, a bar that seats maybe 7 & a few tables & booths.
You order at the counter. I checked in on Unilocal and was able to get a free draft beer ($ 3 value). The guy that waited on us didn’t cancel out the 3 dollar charge, but realized it halfway through us eating our food & came over to tell us he’d canceled it out and needed the card back to charge it. Phillip ordered the burger, it’s 6 bucks, plus a dollar for a fried egg & a dollar for bacon. We ordered a basket of fries for 3 dollars. I ordered the five dollar quesadilla. Below the quesadilla it said «select from below». It listed bacon, avocado, onion, jalapeños, sour cream. It didn’t have a price next to them like the toppings with the burgers. Come to find out, the quesadilla options were extra. I guess the handwritten sign needs to reflect that.
It took about 15 minutes for our food to come out. The bottom bun on the burger was chard. We realized literally as the last bite of the burger that the burger was missing the bacon & fried egg we’d ordered (& paid for). The fries were the only thing that were okay. The quesadilla I ordered ended up costing nearly nine bucks & was so small I ate it & left feeling hungry.
For a burnt bun burger, missing a fried egg & bacon, fries & a snack size quesadilla with a draft beer, it was 24 bucks. Overpriced for the quality of food. A letdown in my opinion.

I was treated really disrespectfully at this place. The skinny fry cook with short brown hair and brown eyes, who was working at around 9:30 pm on September 27, 2015, insulted me and my girlfriend to our faces. If I were management, I would fire this guy. We were paying customers like everyone else and were made fun of (not in a playful kind of way). Unfortunately, I won’t be going back to this place and will tell my friends to do the same.
Sincerely,
Disappointed Paying Customer

If you are visiting, This is a must go place to complete Nashville trip like a local. Very friendly staff and the chef is amazing. We had Joe’s hot fries which are topped with onions and jalapeños and house made hot sauce and chef Joe made us hot fried chicken. Both to die for.
Must go place.

Meh. You can get a better, and cheaper, burger and fries elsewhere. It’s still open late, has cheap beer and the AC doesn’t work.
They have overpriced toppings for your fries. I got «animal style» which was some cheese, grilled onions and a bunch of pepper. I like pepper, but it was mostly pepper and there was no tang. I’ve had In-​n-​Out many times, come up with a different name.
The cook seemed concerned when another patron asked for their fried egg «a bit runny.» It arrived hard, just like the egg on my husband’s burger. The free Unilocal beer is nice.
It’s cleaner and the armadillos are still around, which people seem to like.
Overall, it felt like the place was trying real hard to be cool and I was guilty by association. I’d go back for late night food and that’s probably it.

Loved everything. Burger was great, and the fries, oh man, they are wonderful! You can’t go anywhere and eat and drink beer that’s any better, it will just cost you more. I’ll be back!

I wanted to go before the change of ownership but never made it so yesterday was my first time hitting this spot. The place is small and AC did not appear to be working but no big deal. The boys and I ordered the cheese burger with fries along with a cold pitcher of the banquet beer. The burger was perfect and very satisfying. Cheap food and cheap beer we will be back.

Here’s the thing. I didn’t eat anything here, although I’d like to have a bite next time around.
Reasons I will be back again to try the food:
— super cheap beer
— cards against humanity
— friendly and cute bartenders
— jukebox with shania twain
— cardboard cutouts of steve austin and snoop dogg
If that doesn’t make you wanna go here then I don’t know what will.

First off Unilocalers– Make sure you check in to get your free draft pint!
This whole in the wall, oddly right next to 308, is a gem to East Nashville. Not only can you drink the night away here for cheap (yes, yes, yes) but you can also enjoy delicious food (for example: an egg sandwich add bacon –add avocado) and the kitchen is open till 2:30am !!! YES. SIgn me up! For you beer snobs, the bar doesn’t have a ton of beer options, but there will be something you like and there are GAMES!
I stayed here for four hours drinking and playing cards against humanity next to a badass taxidermed armidollo (from Hail). With a tab of $ 15.
Why are you going anywhere else East Nashville? But also, don’t come here because I want it all to myself. its small and intimate, with a jukebox, and a hot staff who at 3:09 said to try to finish our beers (thank you for your kindness), and last but not least there is a cut out of Stone Cold Steve Austin.

This review is going to just be honest, and not biased. I was a huge fan of the «old» Dino’s. But I won’t let this cloud my review.
I went in for dinner. I love the way they still kept the same décor, and the same beer in cans. I got a burger, and asked for only pickle, and onion. on my cheese burger. I watched the guy make it and he was making a few others at the same time. I saw he added lettuce, tomato and everything to them all. He then asks me «you got what on yours?» I said «onion and pickle only». He looks at both of the burgers he made and they had the same thing on them (lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle) and he hands me one, as if one didn’t have lettuce and tomato. LOL
No big deal, I’ll pick it off. I start eating and the burger is really deep red, and cool in the center. :(I don’t remember if he asked me how I wanted it done but if he did ask me, I always ask for «medium well, no pink». This was deep deep red and cool. I felt unsafe eating it.
I liked the fries mixed with salt and pepper.
Not a fan. The burger (the part I could safely eat) tasted NOTHING like the way Rick used to make them. Oddly enough, I saw Rick walking in from the back. I guess they’ve made him an honorary guest or something.
Riverside Grill shack still has the best burgers in my opinion.
If the staff cared as much of the food, and the quality of the food, and the accuracy of the food order, as they did about maintaining reputation as being «the same Dino’s» then maybe you’d have something. Here’s an honest opinion: Its NOT the same Dino’s.
Side note to all you yuppie parents: its 21+ after 8 pm.

Great burger! Kind of a down homeness to the whole spot. Very divey but I think they care about what they’re putting out. The fish sandwich is way too salty but you can’t find a burger this simple and delicious in many places outside yo mamas house.

I had the honor of eating a Dino’s bacon cheeseburger on the last day that Dino’s served burgers (on their final day, apparently Rick wasn’t going to cook burgers, but Thanksgiving food). That’s right, folks. Dino’s, as we know, is no more. Rick sold the business and is going fishing.
This place was a total dump, with old everything and brown (once white) smoke-​stained ceiling tiles. I can just imagine Robert Irvine walking in and throwing a tantrum.
Rick — the owner, bartender, and grill master — was exactly as advertised. I asked him what he recommended, and he quipped something along the lines of «You want me to tell you some of my food is bad?» So I told him I was between the bacon cheese burger and the patty melt, to which he said I’d better get out from in between them because that’d be too much to eat.
We all ordered burgers and fries, and Rick got to work behind the bar. 30 minutes later, Rick presented me with a plate full of tasty looking food. The thick burger was well done but juicy, well seasoned, and noticeably had not been smashed down. The bacon and veggies were crisp, and the fries were golden, crunchy, and well seasoned. It was a well executed American classic.
Thanks, Rick, for the delicious food. I hope you catch lots of fish.