How do you get into Mentelle Media?
We have not confirmed it. Mentelle Media 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 Mentelle Media
How the venue describes itself: “Latest Video The CHI Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation’s (SJHF) annual Yes, Mamm! Yes, Cerv! 5K celebrated its 10th year, bringing together families, friends, supporters, volunteers, physicians, and cancer survivors.Read more → Browse the Latest Issue Additional Content See the” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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 Mentelle Media sits
Mentelle Media is in Lexington, Kentucky, in Fayette County, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Lexington — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Kentucky page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Mentelle Media are The Speakeasy, about 3.6 km away.
Kentucky holds 20 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Kentucky speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Kentucky
Kentucky brought in its own statewide prohibition in 1920, the same year the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. State and federal law arrived together here, and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Kentucky.
What the newspapers recorded in Kentucky
Searching the Library of Congress run of Kentucky newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Kentucky:
- The public ledger, July 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The sun, February 3, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Mountain advocate, August 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The sun, July 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Mentelle Media by phone on (859) 309-9939, through its own website, and on Facebook and X.
The address is 38 Mentelle Park, Lexington, KY 40502-1512. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Mentelle Media we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, 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.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.