One Double Oh Seven Club and Smoking Parlor - 1007 Soquel, Santa Cruz, CA

One of my regular watering holes, so it is going to get 4 1/2 beers out of scale of 5.

Plenty of pool tables, great jukebox, two HD screens, sports, full bar, atm and last place in Santa Cruz County that you can legally smoke and drink in. Sure, lots of places don’t enforce the smoking ban, by the One Double Oh Seven battled the legal world to allow it to continue to smoke. And smokey it is! Mixture of locals and college students.

I mostly go in late on Thursday nights and recently have been honored with washing glasses for Jeff. Bartender Jeff is the KING of Santa Cruz bartenders. This guy has hugged more women than Hugh Hefner and pours a good glass of booze.

I am kinda concerned with the level of “service” from the other bartenders, but Thursday night with Jeff always rocks.

A little local Santa Cruz history, the main part of the bar is the original bar from the Tea Cup which was destroyed in the earthquake of 1989. Mark Swanson (owner) was able to save it and install it. Looks pretty good still.

Someday I will bore you with the story of the Dancing Girl on the Tea Cup bar! lol