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Brisbane Bars With Secret Entrances

Updated: Oct 17, 2025

Not only are these bars with secret entrances some of Brisbane's best to visit, the fun starts with trying to find them - through antique wardrobes, barber shops, fridge doors, bottle shops and hidden laneways:

Barrels & Stills

A boutique bottle shop and lifestyle store with a secret old world wine lounge bar tucked away upstairs

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Mrs J. Rabbits

Mrs J. Rabbits is a secret 1920s whiskey and jazz speakeasy where the entrance is through an antique wardrobe

The Copacabana Club

At the back of a deli you’ll find a rundown locker room, with uniforms on coat hangers, then behind a secret office door you’ll find an epic NY rooftop style bar

Greaser Bar

At the seedy end of Brunswick St is the entry to one of Brisbane's best underground bars - through the red metal gates, turn left into alley past a smokers den and kitchen and then right

Suzie Wong's Good Time Bar

While the entrance is not strictly hidden, you need to open the door of a retro refrigerator to enter this funky Hawaiian-inspired dive bar to see what lies within....

Savile Row

A closed orange door with no signage is the entry to this dazzling old world whisky bar - open the door and you'll find yourself in a darkened foyer with paintings and a black curtain

The Tailors

A mysterious speakeasy style bar hidden behind Rodrigo & Co tailors shop in the historic antique precinct

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