{"id":5552,"date":"2017-06-04T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T22:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2017-06-05T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T03:09:30","slug":"drinks-food-worth-knowing-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/drinks-food-worth-knowing-in-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinks &#038; food worth knowing in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of a few friends, I\u2019ve gathered some links to places worth checking out during WWDC and beyond. Add comments with good stuff I\u2019ve missed! [Update: Thanks to Brendan McKenna for making a <a href=\"https:\/\/foursquare.com\/sanfranciscodad\/list\/drinks--food-worth-knowing-in-san-jose\">Foursquare list<\/a> version of this post.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>TL;DR<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del datetime=\"2017-06-06T00:06:05+00:00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haberdashersj.com\/\">Haberdasher<\/a>\u00a0(subterranean\u00a0speakeasy)<\/del> [Update: They were closed when I went last night; call ahead if interested]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanpedrosquaremarket.com\/\">San Pedro Square<\/a>\u00a0(food, music, outdoor seating)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mezcalrestaurantsj.com\/\">Mezcal<\/a> (Oaxacan cooking, killer moles &amp; mezcal)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hapasbrewing.com\/\">Hapa\u2019s Brewery<\/a>\u00a0(about 5 min by car from downtown; drinks, art, &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornhole\">cornholing<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santanarow.com\/\">Santana Row<\/a>\u00a0(yes, it\u2019s effectively a goddamn mall, but there are ~20\u00a0restaurants, many of them really good; 15 min by car)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>Bars<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haberdashersj.com\/\">Haberdasher<\/a> (speakeasy; reservations recommended if you want your own table; very small snacks, no meals)<br \/>43 W. San Salvador San Jos\u00e9, CA 95113<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fivepointssj.com\/\">5 Points<\/a> &#8211; Craft Cocktail Bar (good drinks, small snacks)<br \/>169 w Santa Clara St<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/afkgg-gamer-lounge-san-jose\">AFK Gamer Lounge<\/a> &#8211; (sort of a sports bar but with video games on the TVs instead of sports)<br \/>163 W Santa Clara St<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperplanesj.com\/\">Paper Plane<\/a> &#8211; (craft bar, decent food and dessert)<br \/>2 S. First St. San Jose, CA, 95113<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalgravitypub.com\/\">Original Gravity<\/a> &#8211; (craft beer, sausage, and duck-fat fries)<br \/>66 S 1st Street<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/iso-beers-san-jose\">ISO Beers<\/a> (tons of beers on tap, nice outdoor patio)<br \/>75 E Santa Clara St<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/cafe-stritch-san-jose\">Cafe Stritch<\/a> (live jazz, food and drinks)<br \/>374 S 1st st<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drinks (non-alcoholic)<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/boba-bar-san-jose-3\">Boba Bar<\/a> (good boba, and pretty good lunch)<br \/>310 S 3rd St, San Jose, CA 95112<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/social-policy-san-jose-3\">Social Policy<\/a>\u00a0(coffee shop with fancier pastries and breakfasts)<br \/>200 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Food<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanpedrosquaremarket.com\/\">San Pedro Square<\/a> (lots of great fancy-pants little restaurants &amp; options for drinks under two big roofs, with lots of outdoor seating &amp; often live music)<br \/>87 N San Pedro<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poorhousebistro.com\/menu-list\/\">Poor House<\/a>\u00a0(New Orleans-inspired food like po&#8217; boys, near the Shark Tank aka SAP Center)<br \/>91 S Autumn St<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mezcalrestaurantsj.com\/\">Mezcal<\/a>\u00a0(Oaxacan cooking, great moles &amp; mezcal)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/loftbarandbistro.com\/\">The Loft<\/a>\u00a0(two levels, solid food\/chow)<br \/>90 S 2nd St<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofamarketsj.com\/\">SOFA Market<\/a> (like a mini San Pedro Square, the best ice cream bars in downtown)<br \/>387 S 1st street<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/the-farmers-union-san-jose\">The Farmers Union<\/a> (Nice sit-down restaurant near San Pedro Square)<br \/>151 W Santa Clara St<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/places.singleplatform.com\/la-victoria\/menu?ref=google\">La Victoria Taqueria<\/a> (worthwhile arterial destruction with a splash of orange sauce)<br \/>131 W Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homkoreankitchen.com\/\">Hom Korean Kitchen<\/a> (good for lunch)<br \/>76 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originaljoes.com\/\">Original Joe&#8217;s<\/a> (a downtown institution; Italian\u00a0food)<br \/>301 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Special thanks to Dev Davis &amp; Phil Fernandez]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/NewImage-5.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the help of a few friends, I\u2019ve gathered some links to places worth checking out during WWDC and beyond. Add comments with good stuff I\u2019ve missed! [Update: Thanks to Brendan McKenna for making a Foursquare list version of this post.] TL;DR: Haberdasher\u00a0(subterranean\u00a0speakeasy) [Update: They were closed when I went last night; call ahead if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}