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explodingkneez t1_ituysqj wrote

Bro, those are just bars

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MarinaraPruppets t1_itv6vgm wrote

I'm just imagining someone trying to run a true secret speakeasy, and they're just hanging around an empty bar day in and day out hoping enough people know about it and show up.

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Reallybaltimore t1_itv1897 wrote

Hate to agree here, but the places you listed are indeed just cocktail bars OP lol

Closest thing to a proper speakeasy I can think of is maybe Wurst Bar which has a separate entrance through a full-sized cooler.

My actual recommendation would be to go into DC - the Gibson is a great speakeasy

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xlllxJackxlllx t1_itv1vdy wrote

I used to be pretty deep into the Bmore social scene. Club Chuck, Rendezvous, Ottobar, Brewers Art, etc.

I have only ever been to one honest to goodness prohibition era speakeasy. It was on the second floor of a row home in midtown.

It wasn't licensed so you could smoke weed there :)

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CurrentParking1308 t1_itvbyf0 wrote

I used to go to one in Pigtown. This was years ago when the ‘vous was still on Howard St. I do remember a cafe-type place that was on a second floor in midtown. If the Christmas lights on the balcony were on, they were open.

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xlllxJackxlllx t1_itvii4f wrote

Yeah, Sowebo was about the only thing that brought me down around there.

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TaterTotz8 t1_itv71gz wrote

Are you just looking for something with a “hidden” feel? If so, Clandestino in Zen West. It has a secret door but it’s not really a secret.

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DfcukinLite t1_itvxp81 wrote

B Side in Hotel Revival.

Owl bar in the Belvedere was an actual prohibition era speakeasy.

Clock restoration bar + kitchen

Clandestino

Rye

BSC cocktail gallery

The Cannon room

Bloom’s in the Hotel Ulysses

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jessiewicz t1_itv6lwg wrote

B-side in Hotel Revival.

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ChezBoris t1_itv78aq wrote

Clandestino (hidden inside of Zen West is pretty great)

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charmeleonair t1_itvr24i wrote

Lollipop, but it’s members only and I don’t know how to join. It’s inside of elk room, through the door back by the bathrooms with the thumbprint scanner.

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moderndukes t1_itvt3ci wrote

Obvi just a front for the Sinclair planning meetings

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Aol_awaymessage t1_itw0dju wrote

Some drunk lady took us down there a few years ago and her husband was livid lol.

We thought it was pretty cool because it was a speakeasy within a “speakeasy”

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charmeleonair t1_itw6lj1 wrote

I’ve been in recently with a friend who knew the bartender, thought it was cool but I heard it was like $3k a year, and you still gotta pay for the drinks… so not worth it for me

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Significant_Jump_21 t1_itwq4au wrote

Lollipop is a cigar bar, you just email Atlas for the membership forms. It's mostly old white guys in the construction trade, plus maybe some Sinclair stooges. Bobby's Jazz Club was 1000 times better for cigars. I miss that place.

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charmeleonair t1_itwqll6 wrote

Pass

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Significant_Jump_21 t1_itws5ur wrote

Yeah, it's literally where my dad and uncle go to "business network". It smells like old people and corruption, plus cheap stanky cigars.

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wtryan84 t1_itvc63s wrote

I haven't been there in years but Mi Comalito used to have what very much felt like a hidden bar.

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cheekybastard616 t1_itvp8cr wrote

The wurst bar inside of crossbar in federal hill, the door is a big walk in fridge door.

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Bananacles t1_itvhr5l wrote

Clock Restoration is pretty tucked away and low key.

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fijimermaidsg t1_itvr2dj wrote

I always felt that Club Charles was a bit of a hidden place - looks like it's been closed forever, if you even notice the worn out sign.

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DfcukinLite t1_itw8ksa wrote

Theres nothing hidden about it. On a major road (Charles street) in station north. It’s been in Baltimore forever my parents used to go there when they were my age now

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Significant_Jump_21 t1_itwragt wrote

Do you mean a public bar that has a speakeasy theme? Google it. Or do you mean an actual speakeasy/unlicensed bar?

There's a lot of unlicensed bars in southwest Baltimore. Some hookah, some weed friendly, some just liquor bars. You have to know someone to take you the first time because it's usually in the basement or second floor of a rowhouse.

Not to be rude, your friends sound like assholes. The whole point of a secret bar is to share it with your friends. No regulations. No dealing with crowds you don't like. Smoke cigars, weed, hookah inside with your friends and chill. Whatever. If your friends talk about doing all this but then don't tell you where and don't invite you. EITHER they're assholes who are showing off in front of you because their assholes and not friends. OR they don't know what they're talking about and making it up.

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smencik t1_itw0yg4 wrote

The best was the Peabody Book Shop, but it's been gone for at least 25 years now.

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Throwaway2theplate t1_itv3wmd wrote

They're called pint houses. However, they don't advertise.

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SilverProduce0 t1_itv5tz3 wrote

How do you find out about them? Word of mouth?

There was a cool place on Alexandria VA I never got to called Captain Gregory’s. Reservations only and it kind of had a secret entrance. Sounded so cool.

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Purple_Box3317 t1_itvvezh wrote

There is a new speakeasy in cross bar in Fed

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Legal-Law9214 t1_itw9ii4 wrote

Your friends sound weird. The whole point of a “speakeasy” style place is that it’s not officially advertised, but spread through word of mouth. Telling your friends about them is the whole point. Are you really friends with these people? Do they think you’re a cop or something? Even if they did, as others have pointed out, prohibition is over - there’s no real reason to keep these places secret because there’s no real penalty for them to operate. It kind of seems like your friends just don’t think you’re cool enough to know about these places - I’m not saying that to insult you, but more to point out that maybe you should get better friends - the ones you have sound like they think they’re better than you or something, which isn’t really an attitude I’d want from my friends.

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mordello t1_itwhtjp wrote

Anyone here ever go to Gabe's place across from Hollins Market? It was not cocktail bar at all but it was an after hours club. Five bucks for all the Natty you cared to drink and the company of people that should have been in bed already instead of drinking Natty Boh at 4am. Early 90s.

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Jaded_Guarantee_2513 t1_itxferp wrote

It’s not a real bar with cocktails but Drug City Pharmacy has an ice cream shop, a post office and a whiskey tasting room.

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bagel_ t1_itxgxio wrote

Not sure if this ever opened but the owner of Bond Street showed me and a couple friends the back bar area of the restaurant and said he was hoping to get that sort of vibe going back there. That was a few months ago but it was 95% complete when we got to see

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Obasan123 t1_iu3fzwq wrote

The late, sadly missed Peabody Bookshop and Bier Stube on N Charles near Mount Vernon. Front half was an innocent bookshop. Bar to the rear. Was supposed to date back to Prohibition.

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