The Hide-Away

Fun, safe, respectful. All words I would use to describe this astounding little local bar. Words can't describe the excellent service provided by the bar staff and the feeling of safety provided by security. Definitely recommend this establishment!

I was told I could not have an itemized receipt at this bar, when I asked to see the receipt the bar tender told me they do not offer itemized receipts and that I could not see a menu to see how much my beers are. I do not recommend a business that does not offer itemized receipts.

Complete trash bar. Security is super rude and hostile. I brought my girlfriend here and she was groped by a few guys while dancing with me. On the way out she needed to use bathroom and the security stopped her and started talking to her. She turned around and was obviously flustered. She told me that he said she was too pretty for me and that he saw her dancing and she needed a big black c*ck. It's literally a bunch of guys just staring at the few girls that are there dancing trying to cop a feel or wait until they are too drunk to defend themselves. The security is in on it and pays no attention to line outside, customer complaints, they are just there to try and start problems and get some. Really cringe bar with nasty predator type sexual vibes.

I for the most part have always had a good experience at this bar but on Saturday April 20th I was grabbed by my thong twice by the bouncer named Paul after he had given me his number to be able to sneak me in through the back for future times coming in. When me and 3 other bystanders address him he had gotten defensive towards the people calling him out on his actions. After telling some of the staff they didn't seem to take the matter seriously and he continued to work his shift which was okay until he decided to come up to me and try and speak with me on the matter and taking little to no responsibility. The only thing he had admitted to was touching me twice on my side. I have called 3 times since
then and have yet to be able to speak to a manager or the owner and have not been given a email to message with. I'm hoping that this can help me get a response before I take legal action on the matter. I just really would like to be taken seriously. Regardless being touched by a staff member that is suppose to keep you " safe" was not okay at all. I hope that this isn't happening to anybody else.

Always have a good time here! Love coming here on a Saturday night with friends! Live DJ Friday and Saturdays nights!

The Hide-Away is my favorite place to grab a drink in town. The service is always quick and friendly!

The Hideaway is an absolute staple to the night life in Petaluma. It is always an awesome time and the service is always top notch.

Horrible. It could be fun if there weren't such rude "regulars" and bartender. Such inappropriately trashy elitists. Just be NICE! I tipped BIG to try to gain some respect. Didnt work. Worst money and drink ever. Don't do it. If you want late night drinks, go to the Big Easy or Gales.

Very fast bar service and funny regulars. Only downside is the wait to get in on the weekends, but it tells you that this is the place to be!

TL;DR bartender maliciously took an important personal item from me before kicking me out

Just had a really bad experience here tonight. I sat down and gave my ID to the bartender (a woman with glasses). After my ID was checked, the woman sitting next to me started telling a story of how she used to use a fake to get into bars. After she said her piece, I started telling a story of how I was served alcohol with a v obvious fake and pulled it out of my wallet to show her.

The guy on the old fake ID looks nothing like me, and the material is blatantly not real. I was explaining this to the woman sitting next to me as she was looking at it, and after she handed it back the bartender asked me if she could see it. After taking the ID, with strange glee she told me that she had to keep it and that I had to leave. She even took my Diet Coke away from me as I was going for a sip! I left and came back a few minutes later to ask for the ID back and as the bouncer advanced on me she jeered in the background "good job, get him out of here" or something of the sort.

I find the behavior of tricking me into giving her the ID, having been privy to the context of the conversation and knowing that I'm of age, before taking it and kicking me out to be as shitty as it is bizarre. I did not present the ID as real, so it's not like she had to do what she did. She went out of her way to ruin my night and take it from me. This is a purely malicious act.

This sounds silly, but that shitty fake ID is legitimately an important personal item to me that brings up memories of high school I always carry it with me for the funny story, and now this place has taken and probably destroyed it. I don't have contact with my old friend who appeared on that ID anymore and it's sad to have lost it to an unnecessary and childish act of what I can only assume to be personal sadism.