San Jose Music & Nightlife - Downtown Bars

With a little bit of "local" in every bar, downtown San Jose is awash with watering holes to call home at every hour. Smaller hole-in-the-walls and groovy dives are most often staffed with the kind of bartenders that know your name, and larger hotspots still maintain that cozy local feel by playing host to the most familiar faces. It's almost impossible to hit a local bar in downtown San Jose without seeing someone you know, and it's even harder to leave without goodbyes to just about everyone. One of the best things about the local bar scene of downtown San Jo is each bar's proximity to the next one. Conducive to the requirements for the best of bar crawls, the majority of these local haunts are walking, or stumbling, distance from each other. Truly a town of variety, San Jose offers a little something for everyone from upscale class to rock on tap; everyone can find their niche here.