There's an extra-secret bar upstairs as well.

Enter through a bar supplies store and slide a bookcase to reveal the entrance. But Shingo Gokan's Speak Low doesn't just rate as China's best bar: it's got a deceptively brilliant secret entrance, too. Good Times at Davey Wayne's, 1611 North El Centro Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles Book aheadДЄn entire thesis could be written on why Shanghai is so obsessed with speakeasies: they proliferate on a scale up there with LA or New York. The secret entrance blends seamlessly into the vintage world of junk: it's an old refrigerator which seems, quite convincingly, to be on sale as well. The Barber Shop, 89 York Street, CBD, Sydney Moving onДЇrom Los Angeles nightlife kings - and hidden bar gurus - the Houston brothers comes this kitschy, 70s retro affair, entered by way of a garage sale so 70s it's virtually wearing flares. During the day, haircuts and shaves are on the menu in the fully-functioning store: by night, it becomes an atrium for Mike Enright's multi-award-winning hidden gin bar. Sydney's The Barber Shop spawned a winning formula when it opened in 2013: an actual, real-life barber shop with a gin palace styled speakeasy out back. Here are 15 bars from around the world which take the hidden bar theme to new extremes вЂ“ and five absolute classics of the genre. And from Lisbon to Seoul, from Phnom Penh to LA, operators have camouflaged their hidden bars in frankly spectacular ways. Say what you like about speakeasies, they give designers room to play.

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