Directory / CA
Speakeasies in California
8 vetted rooms across 2 cities.
4.6Smuggler's Cove
Hayes Valley · San Francisco, CA
Three floors of shipwreck theming and the deepest rum library on the West Coast, built by people who treat tiki as serious anthropology.
4.5Bourbon & Branch
Tenderloin · San Francisco, CA
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.
4.5The Walker Inn
Koreatown · Los Angeles, CA
A tasting-menu approach to cocktails in a room the size of a living room, tucked behind a Koreatown diner counter.
4.4Comstock Saloon
North Beach · San Francisco, CA
A restored barbary-coast saloon with a ragtime piano some nights and a Pisco Punch recipe rebuilt from a 19th-century ledger.
4.4The Varnish
Downtown · Los Angeles, CA
A dark-paneled room behind a century-old French dip sandwich shop, one of the bars that helped drag downtown LA's cocktail scene back to life.
4.315 Romolo
North Beach · San Francisco, CA
A brick-walled alley bar tucked behind a century-old Basque hotel, pouring sharp modern cocktails to a late North Beach crowd.
4.3Good Times at Davey Wayne's
Hollywood · Los Angeles, CA
A front room styled like a 1970s rec room hides a backyard patio party through a working refrigerator door.
4.2La Descarga
East Hollywood · Los Angeles, CA
A rum-soaked Cuban fantasy behind a fake storefront, complete with a live rumba band and cigar rollers most nights.