Hidden bars & speakeasies in Denver
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Denver? These 20 are the genuinely strange ones — Lincoln's, Hell or High Water Tiki, Bar Max and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Denver they'd never find on their own.
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Lincoln's
There's no sign, no ads, and the owner flat-out refuses to tell you how to get in because 'that takes the mag…
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Hell or High Water Tiki
Behind an unmarked door on Walnut sits a haunted gay-pirate-ship tiki bar where a shimmering phallic 'Disco D…
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Bar Max
A craft cocktail bar on East Colfax that throws out the menu entirely: instead of ordering a drink, you descr…
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Vaultaire
Beneath La Foret's woodsy dining room on South Broadway, a cellar door drops you into Vaultaire — no sign abo…
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Invisible City
Behind an unmarked door on Santa Fe Drive is a private immersive lounge stuffed with artifacts the founder ha…
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Alley Brews
There is no street door — the only way into Alley Brews is from the alley between 43rd and 44th, tucked behin…
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Fort Greene
There's no sign. You'll walk past it, double back, and second-guess which door in this Globeville industrial…
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B&GC (Boys & Girls Club)
Beneath the Halcyon Hotel in Cherry Creek — in a former post office — sits a 44-seat cocktail room that does…
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Trybal African Speakeasy
There's no sign downtown — you're looking for an African mask on the door, and you won't get in unless you've…
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Retrograde
Walk into Sweet Action Ice Cream, ignore the cones, head for the walk-in freezer door, flip the light switch…
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Little Horse Vintage (and the Electric Room)
Upstairs it's Mike Price's decades-deep warren of mid-century furniture, rare books, and 10,000-plus records…
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B&GC
Built into the bones of the former Cherry Creek post office in the basement of the Halcyon Hotel, B&GC takes…
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Ubisububi Room (at the Thin Man Tavern)
Below the narrow Thin Man bar in Uptown there's a 35-seat cave lined with tapestries and Christmas lights tha…
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The Electric Cure
Two service-industry veterans built a rum-and-tiki bar that answers the question 'what if a tropical bar fell…
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Bernard's Tiki Room
The Arvada Tavern is Olde Town's original cocktail bar, but the real secret is upstairs: Bernard's Tiki Room,…
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Bread Bar
Take Exit 226 off I-70, one of the corridor's most-ignored, and you land in Silver Plume, population ~200, wh…
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Provision
Provision is a genuine 1920s-speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar on Castle Rock's historic Wilcox Street block…
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License No. 1
License No. 1 is a dimly lit, Prohibition-era cocktail den in the basement of the historic Hotel Boulderado,…
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The Speakeasy (Imperial Hotel basement)
The Speakeasy is a real, operating basement bar tucked beneath the 1881 Imperial Hotel (originally the Zweck…
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
In 1936, Denver artist Herndon Davis — furious after a fight with his project director — snuck into the Telle…