Blind Lion

Wow this place is amazing. Unbelievable service and craft cocktails. They can go off the menu or create custom just for you. Wow and unbelievable. You should be there

Great speakeasy with an authentic 20s feel that focuses on craft cocktails. Located in the basement of Murphy's. You'll need to take the elevator down to get there. On weekends they require a password. We went for the comedy open mic on a Thursday. On Wednesdays and Thursdays it's not too crowded and you can do a walk in. Weekends require reservations. I did the 3 course cocktail option where your bartender chooses what to make for $33. It was fun to try new things, but only one of the cocktails was perfect to my liking. We met the executive chef and ordered the bison burger of the moment and it was the best burger I've had in a long time!!! The man knows what he is doing! Creative and delicious menu items.

Excellent cocktails and banter with bartenders and patrons alike. You can also have your cocktails infused with various kinds of wood or tobacco smoke. I would recommend this establishment for the whisky connoisseur in your life, they're sure to find something on the shelves they'll like.

Blind Lion is one of my favorite places to take out of town friends. The Atmosphere is one of kind and unparalleled in the whole area. The bartenders bent over backwards to give us the expiernce we'd never forget including working hard on recreating a drink from 5 Years ago!

Syd & Zach were incredible. We have been looking for beautiful craft cocktails and we are so happy we found this place! It was an amazing unique experience and the best spot in rapid city! Make sure to check it out! Ask for Syd she’s a cocktail master! ✨✨✨

I reached out to blin lion 2 weeks in advance to get a reservation. Checked in the Friday before to confirm everything was good then the day of I reached out for the code as instructed and was told I didn't have a reservation. Went back and forth with them then they realized there mistakes at that point we went ahead and order food somewhere else when we made it down there you didn't even need a pin door was wide open. Place was freezing cold we order our drinks and the host kept helping a bigger party over us. The drinks were good but service is lacking sucked that I tried planning and being prepared and they were not.

What a cool location! As you can see in my photo, the presentation was terrible for the most expensive menu item (southern fried quail). But it tasted great and the other food we ordered looked much better. Our server was decent, but put the wrong order in for someone I was dining with and made no offer for any compensation. The worst part of the visit was an unexpected open mic comedy night that started around 8pm. Our server could clearly see we were there to catch up with friends and made no suggestion that our location near the microphone wouldn’t be good for chatting. The first “comedian”, whose first attempt at comedy was to make fun of my friend dining with me relentlessly, didn’t improve through the remainder of his time at the mic. This place was an awkward combination of higher end [priced] dining and poorly timed comedy bar. Had we seen it was open mic comedy night on their Facebook page (where they relentlessly advertise their burlesque night), we’d have at minimum chosen a different evening to visit.

It’s a fun and relaxed place for casual drinks with friends. The bartenders are all nice, and their drinks taste amazing. My favorite is their lemon drop martini, which has pop rocks on the top to make it more fun.