How do you get into Melange Speakeasy Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Melange Speakeasy Bar 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 Melange Speakeasy Bar sits
Melange Speakeasy Bar is in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Orleans Parish, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in New Orleans. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in New Orleans.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Melange Speakeasy Bar are Potions Speakeasy, about 850 m away, The Original Nite Cap, about 850 m away, and 7th Ward Ice Cream Speakeasy, about 950 m away.
Louisiana holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Louisiana speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Louisiana
Louisiana 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 Louisiana.
What the newspapers recorded in New Orleans
Searching the Library of Congress run of Louisiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Orleans:
- The herald, October 19, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Melange Speakeasy Bar through its own website and on X.
The address is 2106 Frenchmen St, New Orleans, LA 70119, New Orleans, LA 70119. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Melange Speakeasy Bar we hold street address, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold telephone number, 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 and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.