Hidden bars & speakeasies in Phoenix
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Phoenix? These 9 are the genuinely strange ones — Tell Your Friends, Pigtails (Downtown), Rough Rider 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 Phoenix they'd never find on their own.
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Tell Your Friends
A Gatsby-themed cocktail lounge hidden below The Americano restaurant in north Scottsdale — descend a carpete…
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Pigtails (Downtown)
The address says Washington Street, but the actual unmarked door is around the corner on Central Avenue, imme…
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Rough Rider
There's no sign at street level — walk into the Ten-O-One office building lobby at 1001 N Central and take a…
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Wonderspaces Arizona
Tucked into the food court under the escalators at Scottsdale Fashion Square, a rotating set of 12+ walk-thro…
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Casey Moore's Oyster House (W.A. Moeur House)
A 1910 house built for W.A. Moeur — brother of future Arizona governor Benjamin Moeur — now a rowdy Irish pub…
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36 Below
A Walipini-inspired (underground-greenhouse) speakeasy buried beneath Sip Coffee & Beer Garage — the bar lean…
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Melinda's Alley
A secret-door speakeasy tucked in the alley behind the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown hotel, historically known…
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Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve
Over 1,500 Hohokam, Patayan, and Archaic petroglyphs — some ~5,000 years old — cover 500 natural basalt bould…
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Rock Springs Cafe
A former military bivouac and stagecoach water stop dating to the 1880s, formalized in 1918 as an adobe gener…