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Speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar in the Castro's Hotel Castro.
A speakeasy-style craft cocktail bar on the ground floor of Hotel Castro on 18th Street, originally opened in 2022 and relaunched in early 2025 after trans owner Grace Huntley — a tech executive by day — bought it and reworked the menu and the room. The narrow, warmly lit space doubles as a cabinet of LGBTQ+ curiosities: fossilized clams, vintage vibrators, and a Harlem Renaissance-era drag king record set behind glass. House cocktails lean on cold-pressed juices and syrups made in-house, deliberately counter-programming the Castro's vodka-soda default, and the short food menu runs to burgers, empanadas, and waffles built from Brazilian pão de queijo — a nod to Huntley's years in São Paulo. It's one of the few rooms in the neighborhood where you can actually hold a conversation, which is the whole point.
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