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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
People sitting on tables outside Barrels & Stills Woolloongabba
A boutique bottle shop and lifestyle store with a secret old world wine lounge bar tucked away upstairs
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Next Episode
Next Episode Fish Lane
Next Episode is a secret laneway hip hop bar with a concealed entrance inside a barber’s shop
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Mrs J. Rabbits
Lounge at Mrs J. Rabbits Bar Woolloongabba
Mrs J. Rabbits is a secret 1920s whiskey and jazz speakeasy where the entrance is through an antique wardrobe
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The Copacabana Club
Courtyard at The Copacabana Club Woolloongabba
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
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Greaser Bar
Greaserbar Fortitude Valley
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
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Suzie Wong's Good Time Bar
bar interior
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....
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Savile Row
Chandelier and alcohol bottles on walls at Savile Row Fortitude Valley
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
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The Tailors
The Tailors Woolloongabba
A mysterious speakeasy style bar hidden behind Rodrigo & Co tailors shop in the historic antique precinct
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1st Edition
1st Edition Fortitude Valley bar interior
Find the secret entrance down the end of California Lane and you'll enter a world of comic heroes, top notch cocktails and delectable Asian-inspired food
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