This beer will definitely cost you at least $8 at Dive.

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There’s a bar called Dive opening in Dupont Circle this month, according to Eater. Don’t misread: That doesn’t mean a dive bar is opening. Dive, located in the basement of Darlington House, is specializing in $12 cocktails, bottle service, and burgers named after music legends. (Because nothing says Emmylou Harris like a cheeseburger with onions.)

Featuring dishes reworked from the menu upstairs at Darlington House, Dive is a project from the restaurant’s co-owners Fabio and Patricia Beggiato, and Russell Hirshon, formerly of Cities Restaurant and Lounge. It celebrates the building’s history as the former home of The Childe Harold, a music venue, with plenty of music ephemera on the walls, open mic nights, and drink name inspiration, including the Bob Marley Mojito, McCartney Collins, and Strawberry Fields Forever cocktails. Bottle service is also available: Tequila, vodka, or bourbon is served alongside six-packs of soda for $225.

Dive seems a bit more Times-Square-kitsch than scrappy joint for cheap beer (a 16 oz. PBR at Dive is $7, so you get the idea), as its name suggests. As you might expect, some folks online are none too pleased to see this incongruity of bar styles in one place.

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This Onion article-esque description has us wondering: Can you tell the difference between Dive’s most outrageous offerings and ones that are too outrageous to be true? Let’s play a game of True or False:

Questions:

1: The walls are lined with guitars, which guests can feel free to take down and bang out a tune.

2. Guests are given a theremin upon being seated. Use it to turn your dinner order into a song and your meal is free.

3. There’s no line to pose in front of the photo backdrops—just a $10 fee to book a photo shoot time.

4. Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is credited as a writer on the menu names.

5. All the flatbreads are named after music venues or festivals. There’s the Coachella, with gorgonzola and ham; and the Madison Square Garden, with mozzarella, prosciutto, and mushrooms.

6. Dive has its own branded condoms.

7. Pay $1,450 for bottle service, and the folks at Dive will take down the gleaming white Gretsch guitar hanging on the wall and let you take it home (it’s on the menu!)

Answers:

  1. TRUE: This is both a thing you can do at a Guitar Center and at Dive. “What if someone was motivated to become a guitar player just being here?” Russell Hirshon, partner at Dive, told Eater.

2. FALSE: There’s no theremin and no free deal, but you will receive a ukulele at your table, along with a guitar pick (all you’ll get if you croon “I’ll take the NY Steak of Mind, if you’d be so kiiiiiiind” is embarrassed staring from your fellow diners.)

3. FALSE: Though, honestly, how far off can that be?

4. FALSE: But he is part of the inspiration for the Fleetwood Mac and Cheese on the menu.

5. TRUE: We couldn’t make this one up.

6. TRUE: This one either.

7. TRUE: Believe it or not, you can get a guitar with your tequila at Dive.

Dive, located at 1610 20th St. NW, is set to have its grand opening on New Year’s Eve.

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