Sessions on 15th406 15th Street5 min from Paramount
Bars Near Paramount Theatre Oakland
Sessions on 15th is a craft cocktail bar and listening lounge on 15th Street, Downtown Oakland — a short walk from Paramount Theatre for pre-show drinks before the curtain or late-night cocktails after the show.
5 min walk
From Paramount
2025 Broadway → 406 15th St
Doors at 5p
Thu–Sat
Sundays 6p
Open late
Til 2a Fri/Sat
Post-show nightcap
19th St BART
5 min walk
Skip the parking
The Walk
From the Paramount Theatre marquee at 2025 Broadway, head south on Broadway to 15th Street. Hang left on 15th, walk a half block to mid-block between Franklin and Webster. Sessions is on the left. Four minutes on a dry night, five if the marquee photo takes a beat.
Paramount is built for the longer, dressier show — the symphony, the ballet, the historic-room concert. We’re built for the drink before, the drink after, and the conversation about what you just saw. We’re open until 2am Friday and Saturday, midnight on Thursday and Sunday — late enough to catch any Paramount show running long.
What you’re walking into
Sessions is a cocktail lounge built around an audiophile sound system — a “listening bar,” the Tokyo tradition where the room is tuned to the music the way a concert hall is tuned to an orchestra. If you’ve just walked out of the Paramount, you already know the feeling of a space built around sound. About twenty cocktails on the list: classics done with care, fresh citrus, real ice, house syrups, California spirits where the bottle earns it. Vinyl early, DJs later.
It makes Sessions the natural second act to a Paramount night. The symphony, the ballet, a film on the big screen in that restored 1931 room — those are evenings you want to keep talking about afterward. We are the place for the stirred drink and the conversation about what you just heard, not the TV above the bar. A short walk, a quiet table, and a room that takes its own music as seriously as the one you came from.
Show Night Logistics
Reserve a table for pre-show drinks, or book the room for the post-show party.