I travel to SJ on business quite a bit.
To be perfectly honest, it's not that great or exciting a town. But if you want, you can find some good fun (towards the weekend)
Bars - The San Jose Bar & Grill is an OK sports bar in the city ("downtown" I believe Americans call it). On the weekend it gets pretty busy. Right next door is some kind of cantina, which is popular but not as good as the SJBG.
Up the road, I think on 1st St, is the Flying Pig. This is nice little bar. Good for sitting down and drinking. No dancing here.
Voodoo Lounge is a popular club in town. Depending upon the night, it will get very busy and have lots of people. Choose wisely though, as you may end up dancing to hardcore hiphop or R&B (if like me you dislike that music), rather than dance. It's no European dance club, but you get the odd good tune.
Speaking of which, almost next door (on the corner) is Toons. A quite large bar cum club. This can OK, plays live music most nights and gets quite busy at the weekends. Not the greatest place in the world, but worth checking out.
My recommendations are start at the San Jose Bar & Grill, have a few drinks, check out the cute barmaids and girls (if it's busy), then head up to the Flying Pig for some serious drinking. After that head back down the street to Toons.
San Jose sucks in one way, as as bars close (without exception) at 1:30am
WTF?!!!
Mr Mephisto
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