How do you get into BareRouge?
We have not confirmed it. BareRouge is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at BareRouge
How the venue describes itself: “Proudly Serving Santa Fe, New Mexico” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where BareRouge sits
BareRouge is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the county of the same name, in the Southwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Santa Fe — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the New Mexico page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to BareRouge are Hidden Mountain Brewing Co., about 700 m away.
New Mexico holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Mexico speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Mexico
New Mexico did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, New Mexico already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in New Mexico.
What the newspapers recorded in New Mexico
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Mexico newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Mexico:
- Albuquerque morning journal, April 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, May 28, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, January 16, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, February 15, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach BareRouge by phone on (505) 901-9519, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 4001 Office Ct Dr Ste 1005, Santa Fe, NM 87507. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For BareRouge we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.