The Bee Hive

Beehive is the best bar! Your not squished like a sardine. You can get a drink fast. There’s music but you can talk. There plenty of bar top room so you can sit at the bar instead of being forced to stand. You can’t beat the prices. This bar kills it!

The bartenders are always super friendly and every time ice been there it’s mellow :)

Great bar to hang out at! Great prices great atmosphere highly reccomend. Love the bartender the blonde she’s awesome!

The Bee Hive is the textbook definition of a local dive bar. Great place to grab a pitcher and shoot some pool. The tables are pretty worn, and it’s difficult to find a straight cue, but it’s great for a non serious game. Very chill, laid back atmosphere.
If I ever own a bar, I’d like it to be similar to this.

I love a bar where you can relax and enjoy a beer with folks that consider daily showers optional and you can drive yer bike inside and park. This place makes me happy, and I’m pretty sure Norm is going to walk in any time and plop down in his usual spot at the end of the bar.

The Jenga is fun, and the bartender is nice, BUT I heard that this place doesn’t have their liquor license… Which is why all their booze is off-​brand… It’s rice liquor. Which is also probably why the whiskey ginger was flat and bland.

Less than 1 star if possible. This place is a terrible excuse for a bar or a pool hall. Tried to order a Jack and Coke… they don’t stock Jack… just a house whiskey! So we ordered a drink off the menu and the lame excuse they had for a bar tender didn’t even know how to make it. The 3 pool tables they had were all tore up!

Stumbled in to this gem in HB. We won’t get into how I got out. No, this is a great little getaway from HB’s hustle and bustle. Eva the bartender was a great addition to the hand cramping cold beer. Outstanding hideaway

Cool little dive bar. Pool tables, tvs & twerking contests. Evan kills it behind the bar.

Can a bar be all things to all people? No. However, I think The Bee Hive deserves four stars for trying.
As previously chronicled by Dan H., this was the unofficial afterparty after his, Laura R.‘s, and Michael P.‘s End of Summer White Party UYE at Fuzion. A UUYE, if you will. We were expecting divey, and we got it. When we arrived, we saw a bunch of unsavory characters hanging out in front of the place. Yes, it was Dan, Laura, Mel M.,
. Fortunately, the inside was pretty welcoming, with three pool tables, two dartboards, and the dangerous-​looking Jenga game. Laura bought us a round of firewater? shots, and away we went. Wait, were those shots? I think they were more like specialty cocktails. Their drink list was on the wall and I should have taken a picture.
We ordered craft IPA’s at $ 6.25 apiece. Are those dive bar prices? Not where I come from, but, then, they weren’t dive bar beers, either. PBR probably would have been more appropriate. Also, this was during an Angels game when they have 16 oz aluminum can specials (these specials are for all MLB and NBA games). I suggest always going with whatever drink special they have when you’re there.
This would definitely be a good place to watch sports, especially Angels and Chargers games. Check out previous reviews for details, but apparently they serve free food on occasion, e.g., Monday Night Football. It also looks like food trucks are sometimes around.
The regulars were cool to us Guilty Remnants. However, we did outnumber them. I’m not sure how they would have reacted had there only been a few of us, but I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. Rosie was very nice, too.
Summary:
The Bee Hive is a no-​frills sports bar with pool, darts, Jenga, and character (s). Good and bad beers are on tap. I nominate The Bee Hive for OC Weekly’s Dive, Dive My Darling feature.
Addendum:
Aha! Should have checked:

So there is a show called the Leftovers, and there is a cult called the Guilty Remnant that are a (the?) main focus of the show. Apparently they always wear white. So after our recent End of Summer White Party UYE down the street at Fuzion, a swarm of us descended on the Bee Hive, yep, most of us dressed in white. One of the regulars was a bit freaked out at first, and thought they were being invaded by the Guilty Remnant. Lots of laughs, but as is usual I am clueless when it comes to TV shows. So off to google I went;
After we explained ourselves, we felt very welcome in this cool neighborhood tavern. I will avoid calling it a dive as it is very well kempt, and clean as a bee hive should be. The bartender was very friendly, and even held a raffle for some Angels tickets, and I believe a drink on the house. Great idea!
They have a very good sound system to better enjoy the juke box, and a couple of pool tables too. It’s the kind of place that you would feel comfortable breaking out in your own impromptu karaōke show, complete with some stripper like dance moves. Yeah, some of our Guilty Remnant did a bit of that. But I don’t think any of us felt guilty in the slightest.
Just call us the Guiltless Remnant.

Great place to relax and have a cheap beer. Cheree is the new welcoming bartender amongst all the other beautiful bartenders.

This place is super divey. The beer selection is seriously lacking and the whiskey selection is almost non-​existent. When the bottle just says «Canadian» whiskey, with nothing else on the label, you have to laugh.
Their drink sizes are huge, and well priced, but you don’t really get your first choice drink.
There was a chihuahua/​wiener dog roaming the bar like he ran the place, which I thought was cute, but weird for a bar. There was also a table with food up for grabs which I’ve never seen at a bar before.
On the plus side, they have pool tables, super huge mega Jenga, and a juke box.
Our waitress was rude to the DD, which sucks. Once my sister declared herself as the DD, she was completely ignored for the rest of our visit. And she kept serving drinks to a woman who had clearly had a few too many.
If you want to come to a bar where the bartender keeps serving drinks when the patrons have clearly had too much, this is the place for you.

This place is hilariously ridiculous. They have no name brand booze just weird generic knockoffs. The drinks are TERRIBLE! The bartender was making my husband’s whiskey and ginger ale and she, no joke, drank the ginger ale first to see if it was still good… it wasn’t! My sisters ‘sex on the beach’ was some weird made up concoction. Come here if you want to laugh but don’t actually want a good drink. I have NO IDEA how this place has 4 stars!

Rosie is the best bartender. There’s mega jenga, good beer, free water, free pretzels, Friday nights are the best. I always come here when i’m in town.

. Typical dive bar for the most part. Bartenders are friendly seems like a lot of locals but everyone is nice, good mixture of people here. Noticed nice cars outside from Porsche to Chevrolets to junkers. Beers are ice cold and inexpensive nice time away from the hustle and relaxing of sorts, good people watching playing pool.

Monday night football! HALF TIME FREE FOOD! Drink specials! $ 2.00 Sierra Nevada, Heineken, Fat Tire, Wyder CIDER $ 2.00 shots! $ 3.25 pint Aluminums! Of course your number one Charger fan! Come check it out!

You can’t beat the bee hive when it comes to dive bars in Huntington Beach! Rosey is the best bartender ever!!!

HellooooOOoo hot blonde bartender.
Your boobs are amazing (bordering on absurd), but this beer selection is *terrible*.
Bud.
Budlight.
Coors.
PBR.
Ugh.
Avoid. (Unless you are a bearded white biker type.
In which case, do us all a favor and kindly chat up that bartender.)

HAHAHA… Ah, not sure why, but I love this place. Probably has something to do with the cast of characters who go in there. Everyone from the bartender to the guests… they are all – interesting – an fun. Don’t forget fun!
Biggest issue I have is that it is a pseudo bar, meaning that it doesn’t serve strong booze. They do carry lower octane versions of some spirits so they can make you a few drinks, they’ll just be weak by the nature of their license. BUT if you can hang with that, or a decent selection of beer to pound for the night, then it is a really cool, laid-​back place to grab a couple, or a few.