How do you get into Backroom Bar & Grille?
We have not confirmed it. Backroom Bar & Grille is in the directory because it period concealment name, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at Backroom Bar & Grille
How the venue describes itself: “Great Friends. Great Food. Great Drinks.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Backroom Bar & Grille sits
Our record places Backroom Bar & Grille in Richland County, Ohio, in the Midwest of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
If you know which town Backroom Bar & Grille is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Sunday to Wednesday, 7am to midnight
- Thursday to Saturday, 7am to 2.30am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Backroom Bar & Grille by phone on (419) 589-7671, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 880 Laver Road, OH 44905. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Backroom Bar & Grille we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name names a back room.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a restaurant.