How do you get into Secret Bar & Lounge?
We have not confirmed it. Secret Bar & Lounge is in the directory because it described as secret, 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Secret Bar & Lounge sits
Secret Bar & 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 Secret Bar & Lounge are Secret Bar at Son & Garden, a few doors away, BlindPig Speakeasy Lounge, about 400 m away, and The Library, about 600 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
The address is 708 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Secret Bar & Lounge we hold street address. We do not yet hold telephone number, official website, 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 lounge and 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.