How do you get into Mata Hari’s Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Mata Hari’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: 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 Mata Hari’s Speakeasy sits
Mata Hari’s Speakeasy 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 Mata Hari’s Speakeasy are Congress Street Up, about 250 m away, Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites, about 500 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
What we have confirmed
For Mata Hari’s Speakeasy we hold a name, a county and a map pin, and nothing else yet: no street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record. That is why this page is short, and why it is a draft rather than a listing.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.