Secret Bay Area: speakeasies and hidden bars, secret-location concerts, unlisted comedy shows, supper clubs and pop-ups, with how to get in and links to the venues and original sources.
Pawn a trinket, answer a rotary phone, find the puzzle shop: here's how to get into 11 of San Francisco's speakeasy-style bars, with addresses the venues and major guides list publicly.
Oakland's hidden-bar scene has shrunk this year. Here's how to get into the speakeasies still open, Moonglow in Uptown and Clio's near Lake Merritt, and which ones are gone.
Sofar Sounds has more than a dozen secret-location concerts listed around the Bay Area through December. You get a neighborhood and a start time, and the address and lineup stay secret until shortly before the show.
Two comedy series in the Bay Area keep their rooms under wraps. HellaSecret texts you the address after you RSVP, and Oakland's Moonglow speakeasy has a free show listed Nov. 14.
Supper clubs are the Bay Area's quietest dining scene. Here's what's actually on the calendar this fall, what membership costs, and which clubs are between dates.
San Jose has its own hidden bars. Alter Ego sits behind a curtain inside a downtown vinyl bar, S Bar is tucked behind Suspiro at Santana Row, and the Bowery Room is in the back of Five Points. Here is how to get into each.
Tap In, at 2012 Shattuck Ave. in downtown Berkeley, is a self-pour taproom hidden behind a wall of bookshelves. You pour your own beer by the ounce from more than 20 taps.
