The 22 Best Speakeasies in Las Vegas
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The best speakeasies in Las Vegas, according to the experts: Time Out, The Infatuation, and Eater have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Ghost Donkey comes out on top.
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The Cabinet Of Curiosities and Ski Lodge hold the next two places. Eater shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The Infatuation next.
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Rank 1. Ghost Donkey
Mexican
A donkey illustration on an easy-to-miss door inside the Cosmopolitan's Block 16 Food Hall is all the signage this dimly lit agave bar bothers with. Red string lights, floral murals, and a serious list of tequilas and mezcals fill the rest of the room. The nachos come loaded with toppings that make you look twice at the menu. Time Out named it one of the best bars in Las Vegas, which feels about right for somewhere this committed to being hard to find.
The awards
- Time Out Time Out: The best bars in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 21 Best Bars In Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
- Time Out The best bars in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 21 Best Bars In Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
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To get into this speakeasy cocktail bar inside the Horseshoe, you pick up a phone, answer a riddle, and crawl through an entrance. The bar itself looks like a haunted Victorian study, shelves packed with odd artifacts and enough atmosphere to make you forget you're technically in a casino basement. Cocktails run strong and strange, and there's a dedicated mixology classroom if you want to learn why your drink tastes like that.
The awards
- The Infatuation The 21 Best Bars In Las Vegas
- Time Out The best bars in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
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The awards
- Eater Eater: The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards Spirited Awards: 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. West
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This is a velvet-draped, 1920s-style cocktail parlor, reached by slipping behind the doughnut stand inside Aria's food hall, which is about as speakeasy as a doughnut counter can make you feel. Live jazz fills the room most nights, and the drinks arrive with props: mushroom-shaped glasses on a mossy board, a Manhattan in a cigar box. Dress for a date, and bring someone who won't mind sharing the dry ice.
The awards
- Eater Eater: The Best Bars in Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Bars in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
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A lone clothespin near the door is the only sign you're in the right place. This 22-seat speakeasy inside Commonwealth runs on cryptic reservation clues, a red light for walk-ins, and a ceiling lined with antique doors staring down at you. The cocktail menu here doesn't overlap with what the main bar pours, and the vintage Hollywood portraits on the walls set a mood that takes itself seriously, which the drinks earn the right to match.
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Rank 6. Caspian's Rock & Roe
Seafood
A compact caviar and seafood bar just off the Caesars Palace casino floor, where Pringles arrive with caviar French onion dip and nobody blinks. The real trick is a life-sized portrait of a sailing captain that swings open onto a purple-and-turquoise room with a stage, hosting yacht rock nights and karaoke. Expect smoked Old Fashioneds, espresso martinis, and strangers committing to "I Will Always Love You."
The awards
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
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Rank 6. Craft Creamery Speakeasy
Ice Cream Shop
The entrance is a walk-in freezer at the back of a Downtown ice cream shop, which is the kind of plot twist a Las Vegas cocktail bar can get away with. On the other side is an Old Hollywood-style hideaway serving movie-themed drinks, some arriving in milk pint glasses. You can also roll a pair of dice and let the bartenders improvise around your fate. Dress for a drink, not a sundae.
The awards
- Eating Las Vegas Eating Las Vegas: The 52 Essential Restaurants
- Eater Eater: The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
- Eating Las Vegas The 52 Essential Restaurants
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
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Rank 6. Más Por Favor
Mexican Cocktail Bar
Past a door that makes very little effort to hide, this cave-like cocktail bar sits behind a taco spot in a busy Chinatown plaza. The drinks lean loud: tequila infused with Flamin' Hot Cheetos, mezcal with chamoy, a margarita lightened with a splash of Corona. The kitchen next door keeps the snacks coming, birria ramen included, so nobody has to leave the cave hungry.
The awards
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
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Rank 6. The Underground
Speakeasy
The Underground is a Prohibition-themed speakeasy tucked beneath the Mob Museum, and yes, there's a daily password, which the museum's website will hand over to anyone who asks nicely. The brick walls double as a 1920s exhibit hall, with flapper outfits and a cocktail kit hidden in a briefcase. It also runs its own working moonshine distillery, so the bootlegging is technically legal, which is the one disappointing part.
The awards
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
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Wax Rabbit is a speakeasy tucked behind a tequila cellar at the Durango resort, and getting in means finding the right miniature rabbit among the many on display and pulling it like a lever. Past the door, everything is red, a DJ spins vinyl from blues to 2000s throwbacks, and the guava-and-strega Hidden Passion arrives in a pineapple-shaped glass. Eater and The Infatuation both keep it on their hidden-bar lists.
The awards
- The Infatuation The 10 Best Speakeasies & Hidden Bars In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
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Rank 11. Capo's Italian Steakhouse & Speakeasy
Italian Speakeasy
Getting into this off-Strip speakeasy means ringing a football, which feels like a sentence from a fever dream, and then supplying a password you only get by booking ahead. A host in a vest and flat cap works the room while jazz singers handle the stage, and you can request an unlikely cover from the lounge. It's an Italian steakhouse in costume, so the red leather booths fill up with tourists.
The awards
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The 18 Best Italian Restaurants In Las Vegas
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The unmarked door is the whole point. Tucked behind the sushi counter at the Venetian, this speakeasy bar keeps a low profile by design, with a full bar, ube espresso martinis, and snacks that skew sharper than the hand rolls out front. Convention-goers grabbing a boxed set to-go have no idea it's back there, which is more or less how the regulars prefer it.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Best New Restaurants In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Secret Restaurants and Speakeasies in Las Vegas
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Rank 11. Pier 17 Yacht Club
Speakeasy
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Rank 11. Secret Pizza
New York Pizzeria
Secret Pizza is a counter slice shop on the third floor of the Cosmopolitan, reached by a hallway of Rat Pack-era record sleeves that makes the whole thing feel like a bit. The secret got out years ago. Now it's a New York-style slice reheated until it could laminate your fingers, handed over by a quick-moving crew to bleary-eyed clubgoers who eat standing up in a tiny square room or carry it off into the night.
The awards
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Pizza Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Late-Night Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater Eater: The Best Pizza in Las Vegas
- The Infatuation The Best Pizza Spots In Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Late-Night Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Eater The Best Pizza in Las Vegas
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Rank 11. WAKUDA
Japanese
Tetsuya Wakuda made Las Vegas his US debut, reportedly because the Strip's energy reminded him of Shinjuku, which is either a compliment or a warning depending on your tolerance for spectacle. This fine dining room inside The Venetian pulls Japanese seafood, Canadian lobster, and Tasmanian oysters into a menu that moves between traditional and contemporary Japanese cooking. A hidden omakase room exists for those who know to ask, with rare whisky alongside the meal.
The awards
- Time Out Time Out: The best restaurants in Las Vegas on the Strip and beyond
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Las Vegas Review Journal: The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas
- Time Out The best restaurants in Las Vegas on the Strip and beyond
- Condé Nast Traveler The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
- The Las Vegas Review Journal The Top 100 Restaurants in Las Vegas