Recovery Room Tavern

"Recovery Room (Rec Room) is the grown-up dive bar, thanks to its location away from the Upper King crowds and owner Chris "Boston" DiMattia's no-nonsense attitude. Rec Room is also one of the largest sellers of PBR in the country. Go for the cheap beer, and stay for the tater tot nachos." - Erin Perkins

"For the ninth year in a row, Charleston dive Recovery Room (685 King Street) has sold more Pabst Blue Ribbon 12-ouncers than any other establishment on Earth. Owner Chris “Boston” DiMattia confirmed to Eater Carolinas that Rec Room is the highest seller of cans of PBR for the 2022 calendar year with 5,482 cases. That’s a whopping 131,568 beers." - Erin Perkins

"Dive bar Recovery Room declared it will host a hurricane party all weekend." - Erin Perkins

"In 2015 King Street dive Recovery Room sold more Pabst Blue Ribbon 12-ouncers than any other establishment in the world, and it appears the bar will continue to take home that title in 2021. Owner Chris “Boston” DiMattia confirmed to Eater that Rec Room is the highest seller of cans of PBR for the 2020 calendar year. Because of the pandemic, DiMattia says that Rec Room only sold half the amount of PBR cans that it did in the previous year. Customers continued to purchase cases to go, which helped, but he says that the 11 p.m. curfew really hurt business, since many of his clientele is food and beverage workers, and they don’t get off work until after the cutoff time." - Erin Perkins

"In 2015 King Street dive Recovery Room sold more Pabst Blue Ribbon 12-ouncers than any other establishment in the world, and it appears the bar will continue to take home that title in 2020. Owner Chris “Boston” DiMattia reached out to Eater to share the good news that Rec Room is the highest seller of cans and bottles of PBR for the 2019 calendar year." - Erin Perkins