HIDDEN BAR KL PASSWORD

They have a great selection of cocktails and spirits, with my favourite being the Asa Akira: Kraken Rum, Antica Formula Rossa, Becherovka (a Czech herb liquor), Cherry Heering.Īlthough I lived in Prague for two years, I’ve never seen Becherovka in a cocktail. Take a seat at the bar and watch the bartenders work their magic.

My favourite time to come here is between 6-8, before it starts to get busy. Inconspicuous facade: 🙈🙈 © Daniel Chan: Time Out Head upstairs to the vault door and you’ve arrived. Sitting within a square of low-key restaurants, it’s not an obvious entry door from the street but there’s a sign just inside. Note: During busier times on the weekends, you may need to stand at the bar and wait for a seat but the bartenders are helpful to accommodate. All the drinks I had here were well balanced and innovative. Then the bartender whips you up something special. Instead, you get a tick-list card to select your preferred liquor and flavours. It has an omakase concept (Japanese for ‘I’ll leave it up to you’) so there’s no drinks menu. Located inside a container, left of the now closed ‘Bricks and Barrels’ pub, you’d easily walk by and not pay any attention to it. 😉 Top 7 Speakeasies in Kuala LumpurĪs a KL newbie two years ago, this was the first secret bar that a friend introduced me to. But hey, I’m sure if the web existed during prohibition, then Al Capone himself would have utilised it for illegal operations. Whilst in the twenty-tens they’re not exclusively ‘word of mouth’ watering holes (the internet has killed anonymity) most can be found online through Facebook pages or websites, and articles such as this. They should also offer a predominantly cocktail menu, not serve bottled drinks (as these were once too obvious to mask) and be dimly lit. Modern day speakeasies should be modelled on the original concept, with a covert entrance that is unnamed and inconspicuous. Speakeasies today The Pawn Room, Kuala Lumpur Often, they sold some form of cocktail, usually bathtub gin (poor quality, homemade gin that was watered down in the bathtub as bottles were too big for the kitchen sink) or moonshine (illegally distilled, homemade high-proof whiskey) that were mixed with bitters, juice, sugar and fruit garnishes to mask the bad taste of these spirits.

HIDDEN BAR KL PASSWORD

To prevent from getting found out, they would have no signage, a decoy at the entrance and you would need a special password to get in. Venues ranged from dingy basements and backrooms, to snazzy clubs with jazz bands and ballroom dance floors. This article will bring you a list of the top speakeasies in KL, as well as some awesome cocktail bars! 🙌 But what is a speakeasy? The entrance to ‘Crazy Kat’, an old 1920’s speakeasy in Washington DC: © īorn in prohibition America (1920-1933), they were once small, illicit drinking houses that would only be known by a select few. It’s a bit like geocaching, but with the added bonus of a drink at the end. Unlike your regular rooftop bar (huc hum, Helipad) they’re generally less commercial, more intimate and serve much better cocktails. Plus, there’s something quite thrilling about finding and drinking somewhere hidden. I’ve had heaps of fun venturing to secret bars in KL over the past two years. In Kuala Lumpur, pretty much anything goes and the cocktail scene here is burgeoning. You may not presume that a Muslim majority country like Malaysia would house so many fabulous speakeasies in its capital, but you’d be wrong.

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