San Diego Reader

• Bar/Club | Downtown San Diego

Henry's Pub

• 618 Fifth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101 | Directions
• 619-238-2389 | Website

It’s impossible to leave Swing Night on Tuesday at Henry’s Pub without a smile plastered all over your face. The Stilettos play live, classic swing music all night, while San Diego’s best swing dancers shake, rattle, and roll. In the background, men in newsboy caps scope out their prospects, onlookers sip delicious drinks at the bar, and Bettie Page strips in black-and-white on various TVs. The band comes on at 9pm. For the first hour you get the older-timers, but at 11:00, stiletto groupies come out to play. Take a swing class at Firehouse in North Park first if you want to avoid that two-left-feet feeling.