How do you get into Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega?
We have not confirmed it. Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Adonis, Bamboo, and Sherry Cobbler are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega occupies the I.O.O.F. (International Order of Odd Fellows) Valley Junction Lodge Hall No. 604, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 100001793. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 100001793 · NPS nomination document
Where Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega sits
Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega is in West Des Moines, Iowa, in Polk County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in West Des Moines — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Iowa page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega are The Atlas Room, about 8.4 km away.
Iowa holds 16 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Iowa speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Iowa
Iowa did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Iowa already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Iowa.
What the newspapers recorded in Iowa
Searching the Library of Congress run of Iowa newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Iowa:
- Evening times-Republican, January 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Decorah-posten og ved arnen, January 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat, February 17, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Evening times-Republican, March 10, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 8pm
- Sunday, noon to 4pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega by phone on (515) 322-1201, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 222½ 5th Street, West Des Moines, IA 50265. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Blind Pig Cocktail Bodega we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold a published drinks list or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.