How do you get into Leon’s Backroom?
We have not confirmed it. Leon’s Backroom is in the directory because it period concealment name, 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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Leon’s Backroom sits
Leon’s Backroom is in Baltimore, Maryland, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Baltimore — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Maryland page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Leon’s Backroom are Le safari disco club, about 2.8 km away and Speakeasy Saloon Dining House, about 4.4 km away.
Maryland holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Maryland speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Maryland
Maryland 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 Maryland.
What the newspapers recorded in Baltimore
Searching the Library of Congress run of Maryland newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Baltimore:
- Telegraf, June 23, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Il risorgimento italiano nel Maryland, April 20, 1929 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Telegraf, April 14, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Il risorgimento italiano nel Maryland, October 4, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- 16:00-02:00
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Leon’s Backroom by phone on (410) 539-4850.
The address is 227 West Chase Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Leon’s Backroom we hold street address, telephone number, and opening hours. We do not yet hold official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name names a back room.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.