San Diego is home to a couple of speakeasy bars, including Prohibition and Noble Experiment. These places are exclusive, and hidden. My husband reserved 4 spots a couple months back at Noble Experiment, and it involved texting and phone calls to confirm the reservation and location, and then trekking into the back of a restaurant to check in with a hostess behind a secret door before being in. Take a look at their secretive web site: The only information you're going to get is a phone number and an email; no address, online reservation, or drink list.
Both Prohibition and Noble Experiment are open Wednesday through Saturday 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Prohibition has a secret entrance in the guise of a lawyer's office and Noble Experiment is hidden behind a wall of beer kegs; both bars are in the Gaslamp area.
Prohibition's drink highlights include The Kensington (AKA Punch-in-the-Groin), made with gin, Cocchi Americano, Negroni; and Mi Deseo, made with tequila, habanero, cinnamon, and fruit. Noble Experiment's drink menu changes often, but highlights include The Rattlesnake, made with absinthe, egg whites, and lemon; and Penicillin, made with Laphroaig Scotch, honey and ginger. Drinks cost about $12 at both venues.
The bars have a strict dress code: No sneakers, sandals, shorts, or caps. No cell phones at the bar. Collared shirts are required for men. And Prohibition explicitly states, "No unsolicited advances on female patrons." There is no cover and reservations are required.
San Diego is home to a couple of speakeasy bars, including Prohibition and Noble Experiment. These places are exclusive, and hidden. My husband reserved 4 spots a couple months back at Noble Experiment, and it involved texting and phone calls to confirm the reservation and location, and then trekking into the back of a restaurant to check in with a hostess behind a secret door before being in. Take a look at their secretive web site: The only information you're going to get is a phone number and an email; no address, online reservation, or drink list.
Both Prohibition and Noble Experiment are open Wednesday through Saturday 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Prohibition has a secret entrance in the guise of a lawyer's office and Noble Experiment is hidden behind a wall of beer kegs; both bars are in the Gaslamp area.
Prohibition's drink highlights include The Kensington (AKA Punch-in-the-Groin), made with gin, Cocchi Americano, Negroni; and Mi Deseo, made with tequila, habanero, cinnamon, and fruit. Noble Experiment's drink menu changes often, but highlights include The Rattlesnake, made with absinthe, egg whites, and lemon; and Penicillin, made with Laphroaig Scotch, honey and ginger. Drinks cost about $12 at both venues.
The bars have a strict dress code: No sneakers, sandals, shorts, or caps. No cell phones at the bar. Collared shirts are required for men. And Prohibition explicitly states, "No unsolicited advances on female patrons." There is no cover and reservations are required.
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