How do you get into The Eighth Rule?
We have not confirmed it. The Eighth Rule 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 The Eighth Rule
How the venue describes itself: “The Eighth Rule is Stephen Curry’s first bourbon-driven bar, opening with MINA Group inside The Westin St. Francis in San Francisco.” (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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Eighth Rule sits
The Eighth Rule 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 The Eighth Rule are Trulia Party, about 250 m away, The Hidden Vine, about 300 m away, and Hidden Bar SF, about 400 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 The Eighth Rule through its own website and on Instagram.
The address is 335 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Eighth Rule we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because 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.