Our promise

We don’t publish the password.

A hidden bar’s door is often the whole point of the place. We publish that a venue exists, where it is, and what kind of entry it has — password, reservation, unmarked, through a working shop. We do not publish the password itself or step-by-step instructions through a concealed entrance.

Why this matters

Publishing a live password does three things, none of them good. It damages a venue that chose to control its own door. It annoys the neighbours. And it turns a guide into something bars work around rather than work with.

So we draw the line in a place we can hold: the existence of a door is public interest, the mechanism of it belongs to the bar.

What we always publish

What we never publish

The two exceptions

Entry detail is published only when one of these is true.

The venue published it first. If a bar puts its password on its own Instagram, it is public, and we will say where it came from.

The venue claimed the listing and opted in. Owners decide how much of their door we describe. The default on every record is withheld, and a missing answer means withheld — never “probably fine”.

If you run one of these bars

You have a lever here, and it is free. Claim the listing and you decide what we say about your entrance. If you would rather we said less, or nothing, tell us and we will scale it back — and the page will say that detail was removed at the venue’s request.