Jason and I are always looking for an excuse to try someplace new on the weekend, and we may have found our next little obsession: working our way through Orange County’s cocktail scene, one $5 drink at a time.

We picked up a Last Call Society Cocktail Passport, which includes 38 bars, restaurants, lounges and speakeasies around Orange County. Each participating spot has a featured cocktail that passport holders can order for just $5.

Basically, it turns date night into a cocktail scavenger hunt.

The plan is simple: pick a place we haven’t tried, grab the passport, order the featured cocktail and get that stop stamped. Then move on to another one the next weekend.

And there are some genuinely fun places on the list, including speakeasies, tiki bars, neighborhood favorites and cocktail lounges throughout OC.

This isn't a coupon for $5 off. The featured cocktail itself is $5. You show your physical passport when you order, pay the bar directly and get your passport stamped after you redeem it.

Considering what a craft cocktail costs these days, it doesn't take many stops before the passport has paid for itself. (the passport is only $20)

But honestly, that's not really why we're doing it.

We like that it gives us a reason to get out of our usual routine and discover places we'd probably never think to try. Instead of spending Friday night debating where to go, the passport picks the adventure for us.

We're going to start checking off locations and sharing the good ones as we go. There are participating spots throughout Orange County, including plenty in and around South OC.

So consider this our newest weekend challenge:

38 locations. $5 cocktails. Let's see how many we can check off.

✅ Royal Hawaiian,, Laguna Beach

✅ Twisted Tiki , Santa Ana

✅ Stowaway Tiki, Tustin

✅ The Blind Pig, RSM

✅ Pub Thirty-Two, Mission Viejo

✅ Roost 374, San Clemente

✅ The Lost Inferno, San Clemente

👉 Grab a Last Call Society Passport

And if you already have one, tell us where we should go next.

Yes! The Last Call Society Cocktail Passport connects 38 bars, restaurants, lounges and speakeasies across 15 Orange County cities. Bring the passport to a participating venue and you can order that location’s featured cocktail for $5.

Pick a participating bar, bring your physical passport and order its featured $5 cocktail. The bar stamps your passport after you redeem it, and each featured drink can be redeemed once per location. You can also activate the passport digitally for check-ins and additional rewards, but activation isn’t required to use it.

The 2026 passport includes 38 venues in 15 OC cities, including Irvine, Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente, Costa Mesa, Anaheim and Santa Ana. The list includes 18 bars and lounges, 10 restaurants and 10 speakeasies.

Yes. Every passport location has a designated featured cocktail that passport holders can purchase for $5. Some locations may also offer separate ongoing member perks, such as discounts or happy-hour pricing.

We’ve already found that the experience varies from stop to stop, which is part of the fun. The Blind Pig in Rancho Santa Margarita and Pub Thirty-Two in Mission Viejo are two of the South OC stops we’ve tried.

If you already like trying new bars, we think so. The current passport is $25, and considering many craft cocktails around OC cost well into the teens, it doesn’t take many stops before the savings start adding up.

But the bigger value for us is having a ready-made answer to “Where should we go tonight?” Instead of returning to the same places, we pick another passport stop and make a night of it.

For something unusual, start with The Blind Rabbit in Anaheim, a reservation-only cocktail bar hidden inside the Anaheim Packing House. In Costa Mesa, Cowboys & Poodles combines a speakeasy setting with a western-inspired theme. And in San Clemente, Roost 374 is a tucked-away speakeasy that has quickly become one of our South OC favorites. All three are part of the Last Call Society directory.

Plenty. The passport alone includes 10 speakeasies.

A few to put on your list:

The Blind Rabbit in Anaheim for the classic hidden-bar experience, Cowboys & Poodles in Costa Mesa for something quirky, YNK and Cozy Pine in Irvine, Roost 374 in San Clemente and The Blind Pig in Rancho Santa Margarita.

If your definition of “cool” involves more than twelve TVs and a laminated happy-hour menu, the passport has some good options.

Try The Cauldron in Buena Park, a witch-themed bar; Mission Control in Santa Ana, which pairs cocktails with vintage arcade games; or The Lost Inferno in San Clemente, a wonderfully over-the-top Goonies-inspired bar.

That’s what we like about the Last Call Society list. It leans toward places with an actual point of view.

Yes, and you don’t need to head to Costa Mesa or Anaheim every time you want an interesting drink.

In San Clemente, try Roost 374, The Lost Inferno or Momoku No Usagi. In Rancho Santa Margarita, there’s The Blind Pig. Pub Thirty-Two is the Mission Viejo stop, while Laguna Beach has the wonderfully tropical Royal Hawaiian.

Those alone make a pretty respectable South OC cocktail crawl.

Irvine has five venues in the current Last Call Society directory. For cocktails, two stand out if you want something beyond a typical restaurant bar: YNK Speakeasy, an intimate cocktail bar, and Cozy Pine, a camping-themed speakeasy.

You’ll also find Bacchus Bar & Bistro if wine is more your speed, along with Benny & Mary’s and Monaco Italian Kitchen.

Start with Cozy Pine or YNK Speakeasy.

Cozy Pine goes playful with a camping-inspired theme, while YNK offers more of the intimate cocktail-lounge experience people usually have in mind when searching for an Irvine speakeasy. Both are on the current Last Call Society list.

Absolutely, and we’ve already made it our business to investigate. 🍹

Royal Hawaiian in Laguna Beach, Twisted Tiki in Downtown Santa Ana and Stowaway Tiki in Tustin are all on the Last Call Society directory.

They’re three very different excuses to order something involving rum, fruit and possibly an alarming amount of garnish.

Yes. For wine, Nine Social in Brea is a piano wine bar, while Bacchus Bar & Bistro in Irvine has a curated wine and spirits program.

Whiskey drinkers should put Macallans Public House in Brea on the radar. Last Call Society describes it as having a collection of more than 400 whiskeys, plus there’s a hidden speakeasy called Tap That Ash behind a phone booth inside.

If you want to make a whole night of it, Anaheim gives you several passport stops to choose from.

Start with dinner and cocktails at Wooden Pearl or Story Bar + Kitchen, then head to The Blind Rabbit inside the Anaheim Packing House for the hidden-bar portion of the evening. Stone Groove Stillhouse is another option if small-batch spirits and cocktails are more your thing.

That gives you dinner, cocktails and a speakeasy without having to invent an itinerary from scratch.

Pick the kind of night you want first.

Want a speakeasy? Try Roost 374, YNK or The Blind Rabbit.
Want tiki? Royal Hawaiian, Twisted Tiki or Stowaway.
Want something quirky? The Lost Inferno, The Cauldron or Mission Control.
Want to stay in South OC? Start with The Blind Pig, Pub Thirty-Two or one of the three San Clemente stops.

That’s also why we like using the cocktail passport as a trail. It turns “Where should we go?” into “Which one are we checking off next?”