How do you get into Sake Secret?
We have not confirmed it. Sake Secret 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 Sake Secret
How the venue describes itself: “SAKE SECRET is L.A. County’s ONLY sake specialty shop, offering sake tastings and bottles to-go from 6oz to 60oz. Visit our location in Long Beach to taste Japanese sake from dozens of breweries, shop from the largest selection in Southern California, and get real, unbiased info from a certified sake sommelier. We…” (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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Sake Secret sits
Sake Secret is in Long Beach, California, in Los Angeles County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Long Beach. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Long Beach.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Sake Secret are Secret Island, about 350 m away, Roxanne’s, about 5.3 km away, and Speakeasy Smoke Shop, about 6.4 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
You can reach Sake Secret through its own website and on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Tiktok.
The address is 460 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Sake Secret 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.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.