How do you get into Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, 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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy sits
Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy is in Detroit, Michigan, in Wayne County, in the Midwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Metro Detroit metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Detroit. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Detroit.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy are Shelby, about 550 m away, Hazels Place, about 5.0 km away, and Miss Eva’s Detroit, about 17.2 km away.
Michigan holds 36 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Michigan speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Michigan
Michigan 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, Michigan already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Michigan.
What the newspapers recorded in Detroit
Searching the Library of Congress run of Michigan newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Detroit:
- Detroit tribune, September 23, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Detroit tribune, November 18, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Thursday, 5.30am to 11pm
- Friday, 5am to 1.30am
- Saturday, 7am to 1.30am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy through its own website and on Facebook.
The address is 1439 Griswold Street, Detroit, MI 48226. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Cafe D’Mongo’s Speakeasy we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and opening hours. We do not yet hold telephone number, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
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.