For fifteen souls
The room behind the curtain.
come closer, and look
There is a second room at Opium, and most who descend never find it. Past the main vault, past the bar, a heavy curtain conceals a chamber built for 15 guests: lower ceilings, lower lights, and a privacy that the city above cannot purchase. What follows is glimpsed, at first, only through the keyhole.
press one eye to the brass
The particulars
Logged in the apothecary's hand
- Capacity
- Up to 15 souls, seated
- Light
- Candle and sconce, nothing brighter
- Access
- Behind the bar, behind the curtain
- Suited to
- Hen dos, birthdays, quiet conspiracies
- Sound
- Yours alone: no neighbouring tables
- Tariff
- By arrangement, held in confidence
The secret room is dressed each night by candle: gilt-framed shadows, a curtain that closes the rest of Opium away, and serves carried through by hand. It is ours to arrange around you, whatever vice the occasion calls for.
Overheard, on leaving
What the curtain keeps
“We forgot the city was up there at all. They drew the curtain and the rest of the world simply stopped knocking.”
a hen party, last autumn
“Fifteen of us, one candle each, and a bartender who never once raised the lights. I have never felt so deliciously hidden.”
a fortieth, midwinter
“It is the only room in Bath where you can hear your own secrets land.”
a regular, name withheld
when you are ready to disappear
Claim the secret room
Tell us the occasion and the number, and we will hold the curtained room for your night alone. Arranged in confidence, as everything here is.