Voted One of the Best Cabarets This former 1920's speakeasy in the York Hotel is truly a part of San Francisco history.

History of the Plush Room During the late 1920's at the height of Prohibition, the hotel quietly and most illegally opened its now renowned Plush Room Cabaret theatre. Merry-makers found their way through a maze of underground passageways, which still exist, to reach the secret cabaret. The San Francisco socialites gathered nightly to enjoy the illegal spirits and to hear the top entertainers of the era perform.

As prohibition faded into history, the Plush Room once shrouded in secrecy, became one of the area's most popular cabaret clubs. Young torch singers, comedians, dancers, and pianists flocked to the Plush Room hoping to be discovered. In 1956, the York Hotel entered into film history by becoming a setting in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Vertigo". Hitchcock fans flock to the York Hotel to witness the place where the charlatan Kirn Novak lived during the second half of the film. You can still recognize the view from the rooms and the exterior of the building from the film.

Today the York Hotel and the Empire Plush Room continue to keep the tradition of cabaret alive by hosting entertainers like Rita Moreno, Andrea Marcovicci, Sam Harris, Paula West and San Francisco's favorite crooner, Spencer Day.

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