4.315 Romolo
North Beach · San Francisco, CA · 0.1 mi
A brick-walled alley bar tucked behind a century-old Basque hotel, pouring sharp modern cocktails to a late North Beach crowd.
Hidden Door
California / San Francisco
Comstock Saloon
A restored barbary-coast saloon with a ragtime piano some nights and a Pisco Punch recipe rebuilt from a 19th-century ledger.
Getting in
Front door, swinging saloon doors.
Order this
Pisco Punch
Your passport
Prohibition Original rooms like this one are catalogued across the trail — see every prohibition original bar.
Keep the night going
Nearest doors
4.3
4.5Bourbon & Branch
Tenderloin · San Francisco, CA · 0.9 mi
A former actual speakeasy reopened with the same rules it had during Prohibition: a password, a peephole, and a bookcase door to the library room beyond.
Hidden Door
4.6Smuggler's Cove
Hayes Valley · San Francisco, CA · 1.7 mi
Three floors of shipwreck theming and the deepest rum library on the West Coast, built by people who treat tiki as serious anthropology.
Tiki Lounge
4.3Good Times at Davey Wayne's
Hollywood · Los Angeles, CA · 342.6 mi
A front room styled like a 1970s rec room hides a backyard patio party through a working refrigerator door.
Hidden Door
The Gear Room
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