How do you get into The Backroom?
We have not confirmed it. The Backroom is in the directory because it period concealment name, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Backroom
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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 The Backroom sits
The Backroom is in West Hollywood, California, in Los Angeles County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in West Hollywood — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the California page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Backroom are Rideau Speakeasy @ Arden, about 1.2 km away and Rideau, about 2.1 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 California
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 California:
- La prensa, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, June 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, October 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, November 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Monday-Friday 4pm-2am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Backroom by phone on (310) 657-8100, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 8782 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Backroom we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name names a back room.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.