How do you get into Foxbat’s Secret Lair?
We have not confirmed it. Foxbat’s Secret Lair is in the directory because it described as secret, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Foxbat’s Secret Lair
How the venue describes itself: “A blog about cocktails, spirits, bitters, DIY projects, and the good life.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Foxbat’s Secret Lair sits
Foxbat’s Secret Lair 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 Foxbat’s Secret Lair are BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge, about 5.5 km away, Secret Bar at Son & Garden, about 5.5 km away, and Secret Bar & Lounge, about 5.5 km 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
You can reach Foxbat’s Secret Lair through its own website and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 439 22nd Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121-3013. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Foxbat’s Secret Lair we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it secret and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.