How do you get into Blind Pig?
We have not confirmed it. Blind Pig is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Blind Pig sits
Blind Pig is in San Francisco, California, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States. The city sits inside the Bay Area metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists 21 speakeasies and hidden bars in San Francisco. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in San Francisco.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Blind Pig are Cognac Room, about 400 m away, The Eighth Rule, about 550 m away, and Remedie, about 550 m away.
California holds 173 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our California speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in California
California came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in California.
What the newspapers recorded in San Francisco
Searching the Library of Congress run of California newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from San Francisco:
- The Western outlook, December 24, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Monday to Tuesday and Sunday, closed
- Wednesday to Thursday, 4.30pm to 10.30pm
- Friday to Saturday, 4.30pm to 12.30am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Blind Pig through its own website.
The address is 718 California Street, San Francisco, CA. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Blind Pig we hold street address, official website, and opening hours. We do not yet hold telephone number, social accounts, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms and the map tags on the record include a speakeasy tag.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.