Popular pub and restaurant at San Jose’s Santana Row to close after 20 years [Video]

A longtime woman-owned restaurant and pub in San Jose, that for almost two decades served as a go-to for familiar faces, traditional Irish dishes, cocktails, and a couple of rounds of karaoke, has announced it’s closing its doors this month.

Rosie McCann’s Irish Pub & Restaurant has been operating at its Santana Row location for almost as long as the residential and shopping district has been around. 

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On Friday, the restaurant announced its impending closure, telling its patrons that the decision was made with “a heavy heart.”

The restaurant said high operating costs in a post-pandemic environment were to blame.

“This was not an easy decision,” Rosie McCann’s shared on social media, adding, “Rising costs, declining sales, and the harsh realities of running a restaurant after the pandemic were too great for this small female run family business to continue.”

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