Holden resident here.

Depends on what you're looking for. Holden is a smallish town with nothing in it in terms of nightlife. The most "bar" type place is probably Specialty Sandwich Shop or Quinn's blue plate and those are both restaurants to me. There's our local brewery - Seven Saws which we love, but we mostly go to Worcester.

Awesome beer list with excellent food (more of a restaurant, but has probably 15 bar seats): Armsby Abby (Worcester)

Dive-y place with limited food, but the best meatballs on the planet and great live music: Vincent's (Worcester)

Breweries: Seven Saws (Holden), Greater Good (Worcester), Wormtown (Worcester - This place used to be cool but seems like a pretty-boy college hang out now)

Other good places:

• Nick's (Worcester)
• The Mercantile (Worcester. This place is newish and really big. Husband and I went a couple weeks ago around 10pm and we were the oldest people there (we're almost 40).