How do you get into Congress Street Up?
We have not confirmed it. Congress Street Up 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 Congress Street Up
How the venue describes itself: “From the bootlegging to the roots of NASCAR, this museum covers it all. Explore the history behind this era at Savannah’s own Prohibition Museum.” (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: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Congress Street Up sits
Congress Street Up is in Savannah, Georgia, in Chatham County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Savannah. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Savannah.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Congress Street Up are Mata Hari’s Speakeasy, about 250 m away, Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites, about 300 m away, and The Bootlegger Savannah Speakeasy, about 550 m away.
Georgia holds 41 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Georgia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Georgia
Georgia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1908, twelve 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, Georgia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Georgia.
What the newspapers recorded in Savannah
Searching the Library of Congress run of Georgia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Savannah:
- The Savannah tribune, December 6, 1928 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Congress Street Up by phone on (912) 220-1249, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Tiktok.
The address is 220 West Congress Street, Savannah, GA 31401. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Congress Street Up we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, 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.
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.