Jimboz Lounge

Mellow and low key neighborhood bar.

As a bar,  I like this place.  Friendly, bartenders.  It's got a decent size and look. It has that dark, "divey" ambiance.  They even play some metal here and there.  Budlight's $3 and I think that may be the cheapest drink in Santa Barbara.  If you get a mixed drink, you're also not disappointed with it's potency.

I guess my only issue with it is that I wish it had more of a crowd going.  I wish there was just a higher influx of various peoples,  like my old watering hole "the Backstage" had.  When you'd go to the backstage, you'd have your usual crowd, but then you'd have a cluster or strangers that decided to drop in for the day.  It was the best of both worlds.  Comfortable familiarity and exciting newness and unfamiliarity.   It's not the bar's fault though.  Santa Barbara's just not that kind of city.  I'm seeing people from my gym all over there place and that's uncomfortable because we've seen each others massive dongs in the locker room.

Most of the time I go, I'd say there's maybe, 5 people there (including the bartender).  That's it.   Everyone's a pro drinker too, where you wonder if they're even having fun with it or if hanging out at the bar has sort of turned into a job as well.   They have a fun banter with the bartendress sometimes and that's fun to watch.  Sometimes, it's sad because it gives me that fear of aging and losing myself further to alcoholism.  Oh time, that inevitable decay that eventually takes us all.  They also got pool tables.

Don't tell nobody, but if I've met a date for the first time,  it's usually here.  It's perfect. It's a walk from home, it's relatively quiet, the drinks are stiff and there's as few witnesses as possible, in case the date is a bust.  

You know what else I like,  the exterior.  It just says "Lounge" in Neon.  I didn't even know the name of this bar till like the third or fourth time I was here.  I had to use google maps on my phone with the GPS.

Excellent neighborhood local bar/pub. A tv is there with sports, full service liquor bar, excellent beer selection, back area for smoking, and two pool tables and buck hunter await for entertainment. I love the lounge feel, great place to take a small group and they are open late. Fun!