About
Made in Downtown San Jose is a local guide to the center of one city: its restaurants, bars, galleries, makers, places to stay, history and stories.
What Made In is
Made In is a family of city guides from Good Neighbor, the Bay Area city guide created by Joelle. Each Made In site celebrates one town: the people who grow, bake, brew, paint and build things there, and the places worth a stop. See the Good Neighbor guide.
Made in Downtown San Jose is built with Bossreach, which gathers the directory and runs the site’s content system, and draws its puzzles from the playbook of Bossfeed.
How the listings are made
The directory starts from public sources: OpenStreetMap, local listings and each business’s own website. Descriptions are short and factual and come from what a business says about itself; review lines are quoted word for word with a link to where they were posted.
Is your business here, missing, or out of date? Use Claim or update this listing on its page, or write to us. Listing is free.
Photo credits
Downtown San Jose’s towers lit up at night — Ben Loomis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The winter ice rink inside the ring of palms at the Circle of Palms — Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An animated holiday display at Christmas in the Park in the downtown plaza — Oleg Alexandrov, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The downtown San Jose skyline on a clear day — Michael from San Jose, California, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lawns, palms and fountain jets in the downtown plaza — Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The California state seal set in the paving at the Circle of Palms, site of the first state capitol — Ikluft, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The sandstone post office of 1892, now the historic wing of the San José Museum of Art — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The portico and dome of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph — Roongko, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
St. Joseph’s Church in a print of about 1871 — Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Gonzales/Peralta Adobe of 1797, San Jose’s oldest building — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Fallon House of 1855, across the street from the Peralta Adobe — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Outdoor tables and string lights in San Pedro Square — Siddharth Patil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
San Pedro Square Market beside the adobe’s plaza — Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lawns and trees in St. James Park — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
St. James Park in an early postcard view — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, the redwood church of 1863 on St. James Park — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The domes and arched window of the First Unitarian Church on St. James Park — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The McKinley memorial of 1903 in St. James Park — Victor Solanoy from Silicon Valley, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
South First Street in the SoFA District — Eric Fredericks from Rancho Cordova, CA, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The vertical sign of the California Theatre on South First Street — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The stage and gilded proscenium inside the California Theatre — Brian, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The SoFA District skyline — Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
People walking on the Paseo de San Antonio — SPUR, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The entrance of the Hammer Theatre Center on the Paseo de San Antonio — Ekans812, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Bank of Italy Building of 1926, San Jose’s first skyscraper — Don DeBold from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Art Deco Hotel De Anza framed by palms — David Sawyer from Campbell, California, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Sainte Claire hotel of 1926, now The Westin San Jose — Elan5, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Hotel Montgomery of 1911 on South First Street — Eugene Zelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tower Hall, San José State’s oldest building — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, shared by the city and San José State — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
The tower and glass rotunda of San Jose City Hall — HarshLight, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inside the glass rotunda of San Jose City Hall — Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks — Daniel Ramirez from Honolulu, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The brick depot of San Jose Diridon station — Daniel Ramirez from Honolulu, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Guadalupe River Trail crossing West St. John Street near Little Italy — Mxn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Visitors in Guadalupe River Park in 2005, the year it opened — No machine-readable author provided. Dvortygirl assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The electric light tower over Market and Santa Clara streets at night, in an early postcard — Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The electric light tower as drawn for Harper’s Weekly in December 1881 — Peelor, H.G., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Illustrations made with AI for this site (no real people or businesses shown): A palm-lined downtown plaza at dusk with string lights and towers behind; Hands screen-printing in a small downtown studio; A word search, a pencil, coffee and a palm frond on a café table; An easel and paints in a small brick-walled gallery studio.
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