The Arcade Bar has won praise for recent tweaks by its new owners.

The Arcade Bar has been named one of the 33 "Best Dive Bars in America" by Thrillist.

The bar on St. Paul's Arcade Street has come in for praise from the national website for the recent changes that has taken it from "one of the diviest bars in the state to the best dive bar in Minnesota."

CityPages notes that the bar was sold in spring 2017, with the new owners making the kind of changes that "irk oldtimers."

But Thrillist thinks that the character of the bar has been retained despite a few alterations, and it can now be considered one of the finest dive bars in the country.

Here's what the website said: