The hipster cocktail crowd should prepare to shed a tear of small-batch gin into its well-chilled coupe glass: Singlebarrel — the downtown bar that was a craft-cocktail pioneer in San Jose — is going away in late May. Do not mourn too greatly, though, as owner Cache Bouren says he plans to open a cocktail bar with a new concept a few weeks later in the same basement space on First and San Salvador streets.

Bouren says he opened the speakeasy-style bar in 2010 in part to educate customers about craft cocktails — you know, those fancy cocktails handmade with fresh ingredients and high end spirits. Quite frankly, he wanted to elevate a downtown market that had been happily swilling flavored vodka. Modeled after a Prohibition-era bar, a popular concept in other cities like San Francisco, Singlebarrel had no signage, just a barrel over its door. Customers were admonished to keep their voices down and their cell phones in check by the bar staff, which carefully made — and often explained — each drink to a customer.

“Over the last five years, all of these goals have been achieved, so the time has come to hang up our flat caps and suspenders,” Bouren said. The craft-cocktail scene downtown has exploded in those five years, too, with Paper Plane, 55 South, First to Market, the Farmers Union and the Continental all joining the “slow booze” movement.

He acknowledged that some of Singlebarrel’s peculiarities might have turned off some customers, who didn’t like waiting in lines outside or feeling like their conversations were being shushed. Even regulars had to show their ID at the door at every visit.

Bouren is keeping details about the new concept close to the vest, but he says it will have a more warm and inviting atmosphere. “The notion that a great cocktail can only be enjoyed in silence has come to an end,” he said.

That’s not the only change coming soon to that particular corner in the arty SoFA District. Work has begun on transforming the former F/X nightclub space into the Spectrum, a new venue by Cory O’Brien, who owned the now-shuttered Blank Club. And First to Market, the restaurant on the ground floor of the Agenda building, will soon undergo a name change and will emerge as the Craftsman.

HALL OF FAMERS: Each year at its annual membership dinner, the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce inducts a new class into its Business Hall of Fame. This year’s crop includes companies and organizations that stretch pretty far back into the valley’s history: Barry Swenson Builder (which traces its roots to the 1912 founding of Carl N. Swenson Construction); the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley (1944); Buckles Smith Electric Co. (1939); Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Co. (1911); Reed & Graham (1921) and Santa Clara University (1851).

About 700 people attended the awards dinner Wednesday night at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, which also honored former Applied Materials CEO James Morgan and his wife, former state Sen. Becky Morgan.

STILL SWINGING: At 102, Ida Pieracci is a golf legend around San Jose Country Club, where she still plays and holds the course record with 11 holes-in-one. These days she’s a bit of a movie star, too. Filmmaker Dustin Cohen made a great short about Ida that’s gotten a lot of views on Vimeo, and she’s about to get even more exposure since Camera Cinemas owner Jack NyBlom decided to show the clip before movies at Camera 7 in Campbell starting this weekend.

You can also check it out on the small screen at https://vimeo.com/117588730.

MOVING ON: Steve Van Dorn has decided to call it quits after 13 years as the head of the Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce and the Convention and Visitors Bureau. The visitors bureau announced this week that Van Dorn is stepping down March 31. He certainly witnessed a lot of growth in the Mission City during his tenure, from the expansion of the convention center to the construction of Levi’s Stadium and plenty of ribbon-cuttings in between.

EIGHTY-YEAR HONOR: Santa Clara resident Eun Joo Park, also known by her American name Jun T. Carson, is a writer well-known in the valley’s Korean American community, having founded the Silicon Valley Writer’s Group, which sponsors annual writing awards for work in Korean.

It’s her 80th birthday this month, and she was honored Friday with a plaque — written in both English and Korean — at Bowers Park that commemorates her life. After the ceremony, guests went to lunch at the Secret Garden restaurant on El Camino Real.

INSPIRING CINEMA: A group of about 150 San Jose students are being treated to a private screening of the new Disney film, “McFarland, USA,” at the Camera 12 Cinemas on Sunday. Boys & Girls Clubs of SIlicon Valley, Latinos in Film and Television 360 and other community groups got together to host the showing of the Kevin Costner movie about a coach who builds a cross-country team at a predominately Latino high school in the Central Valley.

The event will have members of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley and Upward Bound, as well as student athletes from James Lick, Mount Pleasant and Andrew Hill high schools. Some of the film’s stars — Carlos Pratts, Johnny Ortiz, Ramiro Rodriguez, Sergio Avelar, Rafael Martinez and Hector Duran — are scheduled to be at the show and take part in a question-and-answer session with the students after the credits roll.

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