How do you get into Cognac Room?
We have not confirmed it. Cognac Room is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, 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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Cognac Room sits
Cognac Room 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 Cognac Room are Blind Pig, about 400 m away, The Eighth Rule, about 450 m away, and The Hidden Vine, about 700 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 Cognac Room by phone on (415) 576-8800 and through its own website.
The address is 185 Sutter St, San Francisco, CA 94104. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Cognac Room we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, 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 a room rather than a bar and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.