#holiday-pop-up-bars

#holiday-pop-up-bars

'Tis the season to step into bars transformed by winter greenery, tinsel garlands, warm mood lighting, and full-on jingle-bell energy to sip on delicious boozy winter cocktails. In just about every major U.S. city, holiday-themed bars are taking over, transforming familiar venues into immersive winter wonderlands - where specialty cocktails come in Santa mugs, fairy lights twinkle overhead, and even the bathrooms might be decked out in boughs of holly.

And, in San Jose, part of that tradition since 2018 has been raising a toast at one of downtown's insanely decorated pop-up holiday bars. The celebrations are underway and the libations flowing at three of them already: Miracle on First Street (the transformed Paper Plane cocktail lounge), Miracle at Miniboss (inside the arcade bar on Santa Clara and Second streets) and the tiki-styled Sippin' Santa at 55 South at Post St.