Harold’s Dante Hotel

What can I say about this sh*thole
Built 1888, a busy whore house/​saloon.
Frequented by riff-​raff with the likes of Black Bart.
A true «lowest grade» establishment.
These days it’s only a bar, which looks like it should have been condemned 50 yrs ago.
When I was there I witnessed a drug deal go down in back. Where the buyer went into the bathroom to hot-​box it with crank smoke, from the drugs he had just purchased. All the while another upstanding person was using the side of the building as a urinal… Lovely…
Bottom line, If you like bar flies and bag wh*res and career drunks, then this is the place for you!
It’s true, there are few bars like this left in existence… because the rest have been demolished due to a public health hazard and a nuisance.
This place is the lowest of the low.
Makes me wonder how it’s still open.
People are unfriendly. Place smells like an ashtray and urinal. Bartender is completely inept at the job.
AVOID!
Trust me

A locals only kind of place. Unless you’re cruising by on your bike and need a cold drink and if it’s hot out they will surely have the swamp cooler going. No flat screen TV’s here just good drinks and friendly people.

We were told that since we were staying in Cloverdale, we had to stop by and have a drink at this dive bar. Dive is correct on many levels. I ended up sitting next to the owner– nice guy– he gave me a brief history of the place and then we had casual conversation while my boyfriend drank his bottle of beer. I had bottled water as I was done drinking after a day of saturation from wine tasting in Healdsburg/​Geyersville
The bathroom left a lot to be desired but that’s to be expected at an establishment such as this.
The people we met while there were friendly.

A great dive bar! We stop in every time we come to the area. Banjo Bob seems to be always there. I’m told it’s the only bar in Cloverdale with a pool table. Bathrooms are out back, which makes it all the more fun. great juke box and Dirty Harry pinball.

Best dive bar in the area.

OK folks, if you feel like visiting a dive that is frequented by loudmouth drunks, serves cheap drinks, and has an old funky atmosphere — this is the place for you!
Dante’s use to be a hotel 70 years ago when the railroad ran through here but is now just a watering hole for riffraff and other losers looking for a cheap high.
I WAS surprised that they had a bottle of Absinthe and even knew the proper way to serve it (poured thru a sugar cube) — although it was 13.50 a shot.

Holy shit. Apparently this is the only full bar left in Cloverdale after clovers closed. A pit bull chase me on the way there, a way old 90 year old (but hot for her age) bartender served way inexpensive drinks and the place was a super dilapidated house turned bar. The few patrons there were cool and while I thought the place was sweet, it was kind of sketchy. Please bartender don’t try to close me outback again while I’m trying to take a leak, I had a chainsaw massacre flashback.

If you don’t mind drinking in a run down hotel with crabby bartenders and old, sad drunk people, the Dante is for you. It will make you feel like a queen.