How do you get into James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy?

We have not confirmed it. James Street Gastropub & 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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.

Where James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy sits

James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.

Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Pittsburgh. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Pittsburgh.

Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy are The Speakeasy, about 1.6 km away, Confidant, about 4.1 km away, and Commerce Bar, about 6.4 km away.

Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.

Prohibition in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.

Planning a visit

You can reach James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy by phone on (412) 904-3335.

The address is 422 Foreland St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212-4863. Open in Google Maps.

What we have confirmed

For James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy we hold street address and telephone number. We do not yet hold official website, social accounts, opening hours, 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.

Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.

The source data classifies the premises as a casual eatery.

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