Hidden bars & speakeasies in San Antonio
Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in San Antonio? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Bar 1919, RD Hidden Speakeasy, Pink Shark / The Shark Side 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 San Antonio they'd never find on their own.
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Bar 1919
Down a dim stairwell under the Blue Star Arts Complex, vested mixologists pour from one of the country's larg…
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RD Hidden Speakeasy
Tucked behind the longtime Barn Door restaurant, this 27-seat speakeasy has no sign — just a door under a sma…
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Pink Shark / The Shark Side
The front room is a whimsical shark-themed cocktail bar with a mossy photo wall and $.99 oyster hour — but sl…
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Salvador Dobbs
The exterior still reads 'Ewe & Eye' — the yarn-and-toy shop that occupied this spot for nearly 30 years — bu…
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Jazz, TX
Below the Pearl's old Bottling Department building, this basement supper club rebuilds a full 1920s speakeasy…
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Flame & Form Metal Studio
A jewelry-making and silversmithing studio ('a space to learn, create & connect') that runs an explicit 'Date…
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Holy Diver Tiki Lounge
Climb the stairs above the scruffy dive bar Hi-Tones on the St. Mary's Strip and the whole mood flips — an op…
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Southtown House of Spirits
An outdoor staircase off S. Alamo St is the only way in to this gothic, vampire-themed parlor of skulls, Vict…