Hidden bars & speakeasies in Philadelphia

Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Philadelphia? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Hop Sing Laundromat, The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co., The Ranstead Room 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 Philadelphia they'd never find on their own.

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Hop Sing Laundromat A plain steel door on a busy Chinatown block carries no sign, only a buzzer; ring it and you're read the hous… Chinatown
The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. An unmarked door off Rittenhouse Square opens into a narrow, low-lit Art Deco room where bartenders in period… Rittenhouse Square
The Ranstead Room Halfway down a narrow service alley behind the restaurant El Rey, a plain black metal door with no handle mar… Rittenhouse (Ranstead Street alley, behind El Rey)
Blind Barber By day it's a working three-chair barbershop marked only by a striped pole and vintage Belmont chairs; after… Center City / Gayborhood, inside the Hale Building
Behind the Red Door at Vita Walk into what looks like an ordinary Rittenhouse gelateria, then pull open a bright red refrigerator-style d… Rittenhouse
Daddy Tom's Cocktail Lounge Inside 304 Wine & Beer, a working bottle shop on Bristol's Mill Street, an ordinary-looking bookcase swings o… Bristol, Bucks County
Midnight & The Wicked Below a historic Sansom Street building, a full 1920s world unfolds across four connected rooms — a cocktail… Center City