All 9 Bars on the Las Vegas Strip and How to Enter Them
Speakeasies are historically hidden bars and clubs established during the prohibition of illegal drinking and the experience of being naughty in a "relatively" safe environment.
Today, the nine hidden speakeasies on the Las Vegas Strip are essentially theme park rides designed to recreate the experience, and their raison d'être is exclusivity, not illegality/dirtyness.
They were also all the rage. Here are all nine, in no particular order other than the newest first...
1. Sanctuary, Bellagio
The newest Las Vegas Strip speakeasy is set to open on Monday, August 28, and not only does it take knowing how to find it, but it also requires getting reservations that are hard to guarantee.
Past these two barricades, you'll find a unique wonderland designed by Alessandro Munge (Studio Munge, Toronto), where you can enjoy $135 classic cocktails on velvet banquettes - if this is your idea of wonderland .
The cocktails in question - Old Fashioneds, Sidecars and Daiquiris - are mixed with rare liquors including 1960s Bacardi, 1930s Remy Martin Cognac and 1960s Ricard Vermouth from the 1970s.
Each Vault visit begins with free appetizers and upscale bar snacks, including fried pasta, cheese slices and stuffed olives.
How to Enter: The vault is located inside an unmarked door near the cage at the Bellagio Casino, in a small room that once served as the casino owner's office. Reservations can only be made by messaging @thevaultbellagio directly on Instagram, but the experience is limited to 50 guests at a time, so good luck!
2. Easy's Cocktail Lounge, Aria
Wrapped in a mysterious velvet loveseat is a dimly lit 42-seat bar and lounge, also designed by Munge, serving donuts and caviar (from $130 for 30g Siberian Supreme) and bartenders Cocktails by Eric Hobbie, including the Ocean's "Heart of the" ($50).
This one combines tequila, macaroons, lime, blueberries, and black sea salt foam into a bowl of Santiago mussels.
It's served on the boardwalk, a dry ice mist mixed with coconut oil that smells like sunscreen.
DESCRIPTION: Easy's is located behind a false wall next to the cappuccino machine at the Easy Donuts booth in the Poper Eats Food Hall. (Just look for the velvet rope.) Reservations through www.easyvegas.com are a good idea, but not required.
3. Barbershop haircut and cocktails, Cosmopolitan
Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails is the most famous of the three speakeasies in the newly acquired MGM property, and a few weeks ago, Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine hosted a well-publicized "sizzle" "reunion.
In the foreground is a hair salon in operation, offering haircuts for $75. Tucked away in the back is a 130-seat lounge that provides sometimes star-studded entertainment every night.
Spiked Juice drinks start at $18 and are served at the vintage 18th-century Kentucky redwood bar, with shooters starting at $16.How to Enter: Search and open the door labeled "Janitor" behind the bar. Hair salon. You'll find a small closet with a second metal door that leads to the speakeasy. No reservations required daily. In the evening you can make your request here.
4. Ski Lodge, Metropolitan
The speakeasy is part of Cosmo’s Superfrico restaurant and is located in the space of the former Rose, Rabbit, Lie supper club. Inside, it's a fake ski lodge, with fake snow visible falling behind fake windows behind a real bar.
James Beard Award-winning bartender Leo Robitschek developed the bar menu, which includes seasonal drinks and a variety of "izakaya" drinks featuring Japanese spirits.Directions: Go to Superfrico located on Level 2 of the resort’s Chelsea Tower. If the place isn't full, someone will ask you where you want to go and guide you inside.
5. Ghost donkey, metropolis
The secret troika of Cosmo—who, by the way, hate when people call them “Cosmo”—is this tequila and mezcal bar. Decorated with bright red fairy lights and donkey artwork, the space only seats 10 at the bar and 15 in the lounge, a space not much larger than your hotel room. The menu offers traditional Mexican spirits with a modern twist, including the mushroom margarita ($17), which features joven mezcal with mushrooms, and nachos with eclectic toppings like wild mushrooms, tripe and black truffles .
Directions: Go to Block 16 Urban Food Hall near Chandelier Bar on the second floor and look for the door with the donkey painted on it. On-site only, no reservation required.
6. This is Kitty Kitty Vice Den, Resorts World
The speakeasy, decorated like an opium den with Japanese decor, offers $20 cocktails, including the Black Moon Rising ($20), which mixes Suntory Toki whiskey with white port, lemon juice, blackberries and egg white.
Route: Go to the famous food street food hall. Find Fuhu Tea Restaurant and Noodle House and check in at the front desk. Sometimes a password is required, but unless the room can accommodate 50 people, staff will usually guide you until you guess it.Make a reservation here.
7. Castle, horseshoe shape
The speakeasy's signature drink, which seats about 25 revelers, is a $22 cocktail that's served to you after you fill out a questionnaire about your interests, preferences, favorite vacation destinations and zodiac sign. Customized.
But what you'll probably remember most is the adventure you got to embark on. It's basically the opposite of an escape room, where you have to solve puzzles to enter.
Directions: Take the escalator along the back wall of the casino to Jack Binion’s Steakhouse. The bar is located at the bottom of the escalator, behind a fake vault door with a glowing key. You need to book, which you can do here. Once you arrive, use the old-fashioned telephone to the left of the door. The person on the other end will give you clues to the solution, which will yield a code that allows you to enter the vault door and a second code behind it. If you give up (which most people eventually do), they'll still throw you in.
Eighth. Vinyl Record Salon, Park MGM
The speakeasy is located inside an 11,000-square-foot nightclub called On the Record. It can accommodate about 25 people.
In the back of a karaoke room, band stage and double-decker bus converted into a cocktail bar, there's a secret bar where guest "starters" - famous bartenders from other cities - shake and stir drinks on the weekends to create popular concoctions. Mocktails Vinyl inspired cocktails. Collection of rooms.
How to Enter: Find On the Record, hidden behind the record store entrance on the main floor of the casino. Then find a hidden door containing a tape and slide it open.
9. 1923 Prohibition Bar, Mandalay Bay
Fans of the "Yellowstone" series and its predecessors (especially "1923") will love the Old West atmosphere and bourbon cocktails. Please don't shoot the piano player.
Directions: Enter the walkway between Mandalay Bay and Luxor. Press the bookshelf next to 5 Degrees Ice Bar.Book a table here.
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