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🍹Santa Cruz Bars

Santa Cruz Bars

Bad Animal

Downtown: https://goo.gl/maps/R1Y5hHB6PAY9h8KS7
Awesome used book store (great curation!) with equally great wine selection that you can sip on while perousing the selection. Includes small thai restaurant Hanloh (see restaurants).

The Apéro Club

Seabright: https://goo.gl/maps/hJ18vKX1ARnBg4d49
Lively wine bar with selection of natural/organic wines.

Brady’s yacht club

Seabright: https://goo.gl/maps/88rEhJWwSfQoE1FV6
Classic, offbeat dive bar where you’ll find old retirees sitting next to a college student sitting next to a dog who appears to be there by himself. $5 drafts! One pool table (usually taken). Can get busy on the weekends. Walking distance to our house.

Lupulo

Downtown: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4psSGatcTQsc3Tt16
Craft beer house popular with locals. Good vibes and a good amount of events throughout the week

Birichino Tasting Room

Downtown: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fQhXMPHXeDhjJnfq8
Freindly wine bar for a local vineyard located just off of the main downtown drag. Birichino are some of the best in the area

Fast Eddy’s Billiards

Capitola: https://goo.gl/maps/GUNopCQLKaBJEo1X7
Lots of pool tables to choose from (pay by the half hour) and sells beer by the pitcher. What more could you want?

MeloMelo Kava Bar

Downtown: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xsd5Q8Mdst923D2t9?g_st=ic
Great vibe downtown. Only serves kava drinks! If you’ve never tried it, its acquired taste but worth trying!

Humble Sea on the Wharf

SC Wharf: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MwHLAmqQFnVgk2XZ6
Good beer within earshot of the seals on the wharf. Would normally go to their brewery on the west side, but this is stopping by if its your first time here and you’ll likely go to the boardwalk anyways

🍻 Santa Cruz Breweries

Tons of breweries in Santa Cruz. They’re all great and offer unique vibes. Check their instagrams for weekly events (trivia, drag bingo, comedy, live music).

Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing

Westside: https://goo.gl/maps/t6RbHAwgSuc5XJwv5

Shanty Shack Brewing

Downtown: https://goo.gl/maps/h5Y37vMQQyfTyPxm

Sante Adairus

Seaside: https://goo.gl/maps/6b6kRj2nKNAgtGBj7

Woodhouse Blending and Brewing

Downtown: https://goo.gl/maps/VuHrNmKoBdTuXg9o8

Humble Sea

Westside: https://goo.gl/maps/X5t9zt2SPVCWCiNc9

Beer Thirty Pour House

Soquel: https://goo.gl/maps/FLLt1kBnSoKGTVKV6

Discretion Brewing

Soquel: https://goo.gl/maps/pfYxTEBBYWuuJLxU9

🍷 Santa Cruz Wineries

The Santa Cruz mountains are a mini hot spot for california wine. I havent actually visited many of the wineries but have enjoyed many of their bottles.

Wrights Station

https://maps.app.goo.gl/VmWqwCJ9Bx6Z4vrt5

Loma Prieta

https://maps.app.goo.gl/jRhcvpAgeRZS13N97

Soquel Vineyards

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RCvMXXY2ezMgfBSf6