{"id":456071,"date":"2026-10-04T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456071\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:38:08","slug":"midnight-swim-closing-after-7-years-on-st-marys-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456071\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Swim closing after 7 years on St. Mary&#8217;s Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Mary\u2019s Strip favorite is saying farewell to San Antonio. After seven years of late nights, DJ sets and plenty of memories, the team behind Midnight Swim says it\u2019s ready to turn the page.<\/p>\n<p>Midnight Swim will close its doors on January 3, co-owner John Michael Villanueva <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeCWfOhunr7\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">announced Saturday<\/a>, October 3. But the team isn\u2019t saying goodbye to its home at 2403 N. St. Mary\u2019s St. just yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re ready to do something different here,\u201d Villanueva said in an Instagram reel. \u201cThis is the farewell tour. The grand finale. The f***ing end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What exactly comes next remains a mystery. Villanueva teased that the team has something new planned for the address but did not share details about what will replace Midnight Swim.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, the bar is giving San Antonians 90 days to stop by before it closes. Villanueva invited longtime regulars and people who have never visited to check out Midnight Swim during its final months. He even joked that people who have been banned can reach out to see if they can make a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>The farewell stretch will include the bar\u2019s Halloween celebrations, which Villanueva said will be as big as ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to turning the page with y\u2019all,\u201d Villanueva said. \u201cI really just wanted to thank all of y\u2019all for pulling up and having fun with us the last seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team hasn\u2019t revealed what\u2019s coming next, but Villanueva made one thing clear: They\u2019re not done with 2403 N. St. Mary\u2019s St.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcited for y\u2019all to see what we do next,\u201d Villanueva wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Mary\u2019s Strip favorite is saying farewell to San Antonio. After seven years of late nights, DJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[821,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-456071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysabusiness","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}