Nowhere Bar & Grill - San Jose, California

jasen west

It's a cash only dive bar. The server was great. There are 2 pinball machines. The menu for food looked good but either was closed or the bartender is supposed to make it, but I didn't ask. Beer and drink prices were good for a bar.

gian giglio

Best real dive bar in town!!!
This is the kind of place you can walk in have a cheap drink or 5 and have a great conversation with a regular.
Pool tables were cheap and everyone is friendly and diverse!
Can't wait to come back and try the food!!
Really friendly place. Bring some snacks to share, and sit outside for a smoke and a chat.
Support this place, real dives are getting harder and harder to find.

Konstantin Goldin

Traditional hole in the wall bar. Kitchen will be open soon, and there is delicious Mexican place next door. Strong drinks, reasonable prices. Friendly bar tenders.

Penelope Parker

Noise levels intolerable. This place has great service and great food and the atmosphere would be fun except the patrons talk so loud they are shouting to the bartender and each other. sometimes they're having a conversation with the bartender 20 ft away from him, over you while you're trying to speak to the person next to you.

People like me with undamaged hearing have to wear earplugs in there. They turned the music up loud to I guess drown out patrons using their outside voices. I'm sure the patrons don't realize how loud they're talking...they're not doing it on purpose.
I don't think much can be done about this problem because it's not the staff that are the problem it's the patrons.
Just be advised if you have really good hearing this may not be the place for you.

mariya crisler

Amazing food....Pads the Master Chef there, who would have thought, perfect eggs I mean the foods great. Met the locals Johnny and a Cindy, Amazing people and place....Thanks Mr. Bartender

Phil B

I stop by in the daytime. Cash only. Great staff and the kitchen has amazing food for the price. The pizza is amazing, but expect a wait. It is hand made. Stop by for a drink, conversation, pool, pinball and a meal! And I almost forgot the BBQ ribs and chicken on Friday.

Rainey Meszaros

I hi guys so we're talking about the Nowhere bar. An interesting place back in my hay day of going to bars and things like that we called these neighborhood bars or dive bars something to that effect there's no real connotation meme this is the descriptive thing this is your neighborhood your bars surrounded by neighborhoods it's a small strip mall with by the way has a four Flags boxing training center in the little strip mall and I thought I've never seen one of those before we're in person so I got to pick in it was very nice and pretty interesting but I digress. So back to the Nowhere bar, I want to be really clear, the rating I gave was a three but not for any particularly negative experience okay, one small one but not that big a deal I will say more about that in a little bit. it is, a like I said, a small neighborhood Dive Bar. many of the neighborhood dive bars that are still in existence, in my area at least , or so it's been my experience, have we Face themselves and become kind of trendy or what we might have called at one point Yuppie bars ( if you haven't figured it out by now I would think you know what generation or era I came from ). Place a little pain on the walls some nice bright new lighting and can lights and some mirrors and some new more modern up-to-date younger oriented furniture and now you have trendy or more one might say is a little more upscale. That's just not the case with the Nowhere bar it is still designed for the neighbors to people who live in the closely adjacent neighborhoods. Certainly it gives you that church feels it seems everybody in there knows everybody and everybody seems to be relatively friendly now let's get to the good parts I've I've been there once or twice before the bartender's been the same every time very consistent very nice and and very easy to talk to a wealth of of knowledge a little bit about everything can add more than that she is a mixologist. The food food it's like your Basic pizza and snack Park the type food that's if you were a better entrees than you know more flavorful and and fulfilling entrees up there but not just a straight truck load of fried food like a lot of places so we had a pizza at this time. And definitely the food is acceptable. Now why the three you ask them was three's right in the middle of between one and five and then there's nothing special if if you vibe there it's a great place but you know average atmosphere average food I mean they're not going to blow any any food critics off the map but you will enjoy it you'll enjoy drink and join me some people you'll enjoy the company it's a solid place to go and have a cocktail and maybe a quick bite to eat. Just remember it's no frills no rock and roll no pinkies in in the air. let me know what you think and as always if you can like or subscribe or whatever it helps me to achieve the status content thank you

Danny Zendejas

Very friendly place to go great food. Play bartenders safe place to hangout.