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2017-03-25 10:15:01 PM  
List fails without Dan's Cafe.
 
2017-03-25 10:37:10 PM  
I once went to an after hours place in the basement of an apartment building in Detroit.  That's a secret bar, not these places.
 
2017-03-25 10:37:51 PM  
I cannot imagine the hassle of trying to organize a Fark party at Ipswitch.
 
2017-03-25 11:00:58 PM  
Is the Nachbar in Louisville on the list?
 
asymptonic [TotalFark]  
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2017-03-25 11:01:13 PM  
Well, they were.
 
2017-03-25 11:02:50 PM  
141st and Taylor.

The #31  goes by at 20 and 50.

Ya'll cool? Right?
 
2017-03-25 11:07:17 PM  
The secret bar I go to is so secret I can't even tell you about it or they'll kill me.
 
berylman  
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2017-03-25 11:08:33 PM  
http://www.theoldforge.co.uk/ I won't be there but I recommend it. I can only tolerate places where wee-folk are allowed to parade about in leopard costumes.
 
2017-03-25 11:13:25 PM  
Your stupid linl crashes on my phone, stupid subby.
 
2017-03-25 11:13:45 PM  

The Soupman Cumeth: Your stupid linl crashes on my phone, stupid subby.


Um...link dammit
 
2017-03-25 11:17:24 PM  
know any secret bars?

no but if you hum a few i'll fake it
 
70Ford  
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2017-03-25 11:17:54 PM  
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2017-03-25 11:23:11 PM  
You haven't been to a secret bar until you've been in the weird seam of humanity where the PA Amish country rubs up against Reading PA biker culture.  Way after closing.
 
2017-03-25 11:26:29 PM  
It's no longer secret if it makes a list.
 
proco  
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2017-03-25 11:27:42 PM  
Murphy's Tavern in Rumson, NJ. Started operating in the basement of a house during Prohibition and is still there.
 
Cpl.D  
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2017-03-25 11:38:15 PM  
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2017-03-25 11:40:11 PM  
I wouldn't even put on my dick showing boxer briefs for any of those desperate groups.
 
berylman  
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2017-03-25 11:41:56 PM  
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You don't know what a shiathole bar is until the tabasco sauce is moldy.
 
Truthman  
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2017-03-25 11:49:11 PM  
My favorite secret bar is in my house. Only my friends know about it and no tipping necessary
 
astro716  
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2017-03-25 11:58:12 PM  
My favorite secret bar is in my brother-in-law's basement. Drinks are free, not because he doesn't charge, but because I refuse to pay.
 
2017-03-25 11:58:28 PM  
Scented  candles are nice. Until one guy, just ONE guy trips.

Seriously, make fun of me all you want. I don't give a sh*t


Put out every  single thing that is fire. Why not? Just go do it.
 
2017-03-26 12:07:57 AM  
The Plywood Palace in Moquah, WI isn't a secret to the townies or regular snowmobilers in the area, but it's a "secret" to almost everyone else. No heat. Holes in the roof. A pool table. Perfect stop while out on the trails.

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2017-03-26 12:08:08 AM  
In the tavern down below,
There's never any ice,
the beer is always bitter and the 'tender's never nice.

In the tavern down below,
the girls are not so cute,
the floor is always sticky and the toilet's full of puke.
 
gerbilpox  
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2017-03-26 12:11:00 AM  

berylman: http://www.theoldforge.co.uk/ I won't be there but I recommend it. I can only tolerate places where wee-folk are allowed to parade about in leopard costumes.


Drink enough absinthe and they all do.
 
2017-03-26 12:14:55 AM  

The Pope of Manwich Village: The Plywood Palace in Moquah, WI isn't a secret to the townies or regular snowmobilers in the area, but it's a "secret" to almost everyone else. No heat. Holes in the roof. A pool table. Perfect stop while out on the trails.

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Waaaaaaay too Flyover-Country.

Signed,
The writers of TFA
 
berylman  
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2017-03-26 12:18:34 AM  

gerbilpox: Drink enough absinthe and they all do.

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Don't go there mate but I think you ;already know
 
gerbilpox  
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2017-03-26 12:25:02 AM  

Strongbeerrules: In the tavern down below,
There's never any ice,
the beer is always bitter and the 'tender's never nice.

In the tavern down below,
the girls are not so cute,
the floor is always sticky and the toilet's full of puke.


That sounds like the 'Vous (near the U. of Md.) in the good old days. People wore their "Vous shoes," but with 25¢ pitchers, nobody cared and beer goggles made everyone cute.

/get off my lawn!
//is what the neighbors would yell when we peed on them
///(peed on the lawn, that is, not them. they yelled different things for that)
////good times
 
Mock26  
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2017-03-26 12:29:36 AM  
The secret bar I go to is so secret that none of the patrons let alone the owner and staff know where it is.
 
Cpl.D  
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2017-03-26 12:31:16 AM  

Mock26: The secret bar I go to is so secret that none of the patrons let alone the owner and staff know where it is.


Bottle of hooch left in the elderly neighbors' recycling bin?
 
joemack621  
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2017-03-26 12:47:31 AM  
Kind of along the lines of a "secret" bar, I like The Safe House in Milwaukee. It's not a secret place as what is featured in TFA, but the secret is knowing the password to get in. If you don't, you have to pass the "clearance test".

CSB: I got in when I was 17 and drank without question because I knew the password. It was the same password my dad told me when he went there 40+ years prior.
 
Mock26  
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2017-03-26 1:03:52 AM  

Cpl.D: Mock26: The secret bar I go to is so secret that none of the patrons let alone the owner and staff know where it is.

Bottle of hooch left in the elderly neighbors' recycling bin?


Narp.  I looked there last week.
 
Dibikad  
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2017-03-26 1:27:44 AM  

joemack621: Kind of along the lines of a "secret" bar, I like The Safe House in Milwaukee. It's not a secret place as what is featured in TFA, but the secret is knowing the password to get in. If you don't, you have to pass the "clearance test".

CSB: I got in when I was 17 and drank without question because I knew the password. It was the same password my dad told me when he went there 40+ years prior.


Yeah, pretty cool place. Girl I was with at the time wouldn't tell me the password so I had to do the macerena. Watch 3 very large men have to do the hokey pokey and then seeing their face when they found out everyone in the bar was watching was great.
 
Dibikad  
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2017-03-26 1:32:51 AM  
Secret venue/party place around minneapolis I got to experience was this place that looks like just a regular mundane apartment complex, which it partly is. Half of it the guy rents out the other half is amazing fun house with secret passages to find, hidden balconies, rooms that look like the inside of I dream of genies bottle, twilightzone, giant teacup table, hallways that look like old fashioned train cars. Had a dance hall and stage. Place is nuts.
 
k00k  
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2017-03-26 2:00:14 AM  

joemack621: Kind of along the lines of a "secret" bar, I like The Safe House in Milwaukee. It's not a secret place as what is featured in TFA, but the secret is knowing the password to get in. If you don't, you have to pass the "clearance test".

CSB: I got in when I was 17 and drank without question because I knew the password. It was the same password my dad told me when he went there 40+ years prior.


The tales my old man tells me of Safehouse was about pulling a handle on an old skool time card clock to "punch in", which opened the secret door.  I never saw that, I pretty much just waltzed right in with the proper passphrase.  Which still hasn't changed since the place opened to my knowledge.  As an IT guy, that's the most lenient password policy I ever heard of

/didnt tell friends the pw
//watched them get vetted via cctv :D
 
Warthog [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2017-03-26 2:32:08 AM  
Lists like this suck because they cause secret bars to cease being secret bars.  My favorite secret bar in NYC in the late 90's, Angel's Share, which you entered through a plain door in the wall of a Korean Restaurant, became so unsecret they opened a second more secret location: http://ny.eater.com/2015/12/14/10107484/angels-share-second-bar

Which then got its own press.

And defeats the whole point.
 
2017-03-26 2:40:07 AM  

gerbilpox: Strongbeerrules: In the tavern down below,
There's never any ice,
the beer is always bitter and the 'tender's never nice.

In the tavern down below,
the girls are not so cute,
the floor is always sticky and the toilet's full of puke.

That sounds like the 'Vous (near the U. of Md.) in the good old days. People wore their "Vous shoes," but with 25¢ pitchers, nobody cared and beer goggles made everyone cute.

/get off my lawn!
//is what the neighbors would yell when we peed on them
///(peed on the lawn, that is, not them. they yelled different things for that)
////good times


Hell yeh, I grew up a mile away and used to get into the Rendezvous with my older cousin when I was 17. We used to play quarters with those damn pitchers. noice.
 
8 inches [TotalFark]  
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2017-03-26 2:44:24 AM  
Filthy McNasty's
 
2017-03-26 3:01:04 AM  

8 inches: Filthy McNasty's


There used to be a strip club here in Portland called Shagnasty's.
 
2017-03-26 3:04:21 AM  

berylman: [encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com image 225x225]
You don't know what a shiathole bar is until the tabasco sauce is moldy.


shithole bar
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2017-03-26 3:24:59 AM  

Dibikad: Secret venue/party place around minneapolis I got to experience was this place that looks like just a regular mundane apartment complex, which it partly is. Half of it the guy rents out the other half is amazing fun house with secret passages to find, hidden balconies, rooms that look like the inside of I dream of genies bottle, twilightzone, giant teacup table, hallways that look like old fashioned train cars. Had a dance hall and stage. Place is nuts.


Had one of those in Oakland.

It was called Ghost Bar or Art Ship or something. Haven't been in a while- that place was hot.
 
2017-03-26 4:12:46 AM  
Accorded Neutral Territory.
 
2017-03-26 5:03:18 AM  
No, sorry. Your mom's basement is NOT a bar, regardless of how you furnish it.

She doesn't allow you to bring in any alcohol anyway.
 
2017-03-26 5:37:26 AM  
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luckyeddie  
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2017-03-26 5:51:09 AM  
No article on great bars is complete without including at least 4 from Bruges alone - and any article on 'secret bars' which fails to include the Staminee de Garre down the little passage next to the Belfort just means that the couldn't find it.
 
2017-03-26 6:17:46 AM  
They left off Hacienda in Dublin. Just as well, you weren't getting in, anyway.
 
luckyeddie  
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2017-03-26 7:05:00 AM  

swahnhennessy: They left off Hacienda in Dublin. Just as well, you weren't getting in, anyway.


I heard about that place when I was last in Dublin. I was so impressed with what I heard that i went to Porterhouse Central instead for a pint of Wrasslers XXXX.
 
2017-03-26 8:07:13 AM  

joemack621: Kind of along the lines of a "secret" bar, I like The Safe House in Milwaukee. It's not a secret place as what is featured in TFA, but the secret is knowing the password to get in. If you don't, you have to pass the "clearance test".

CSB: I got in when I was 17 and drank without question because I knew the password. It was the same password my dad told me when he went there 40+ years prior.


You obviously haven't been there in the last 2-3 years. The Marcus Corporation (You know, the midwest theater chain with the recliners that are stickier than the floors in a normal theater.) took it over. You just walk in now and the nude Burt Reynolds and secret phone booth exit are no longer. And the drinks are even more outrageously expensive.
 
2017-03-26 8:40:29 AM  
Oh oh I went to a secret bar on Friday night.  I had no idea it existed where it did.

My mate is dating a celeb and they came to town for the night, staying in one of the new discrete hipsterish type hotels.  They got up graded to the 11th floor once they realised who was staying there.  Anyway, after an evening of drinking too much, eating too much we decided to go to the roof top bar on the 12th floor.  We had to go all the way back down to the ground, then to the one and only elevator that went to the 12th floor (mind you there is know signage anyway to suggest this bar even exists.)

We spent the next few hours getting drunk whilst experiencing views of my city I did not even know existed.  The Mayfair on King William Streer for any Adelaidians looking for a pretty elitist experience (the bar dudes were doing shiat like from cocktails and we still had to wait to be served.)
 
2017-03-26 8:46:03 AM  

Burn_The_Plows: joemack621: Kind of along the lines of a "secret" bar, I like The Safe House in Milwaukee. It's not a secret place as what is featured in TFA, but the secret is knowing the password to get in. If you don't, you have to pass the "clearance test".

CSB: I got in when I was 17 and drank without question because I knew the password. It was the same password my dad told me when he went there 40+ years prior.

You obviously haven't been there in the last 2-3 years. The Marcus Corporation (You know, the midwest theater chain with the recliners that are stickier than the floors in a normal theater.) took it over. You just walk in now and the nude Burt Reynolds and secret phone booth exit are no longer. And the drinks are even more outrageously expensive.


Yeah, I live nearby and avoid it like the plague. It's all tourists, super expensive drinks, kitch, and always half empty now. Bryant's down in Bayview (which is in the basement of a house and has a plain, unmarked door) is much better if you're after that kind of vibe.
 
2017-03-26 10:20:41 AM  
Er, Walker's Point. Not Bayview
 
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