How do you get into BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge
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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge sits
BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge 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 BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge are Secret Bar at Son & Garden, about 400 m away, Secret Bar & Lounge, about 400 m away, and Louie’s Gen-Gen Room, about 500 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
You can reach BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge by phone on (415) 484-6028, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 1113 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a lounge and calls it a speakeasy 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.