How do you get into Milk Bar?
Milk Bar is listed as inside another business. Walk through a working business to reach the bar.
We hold a note of which business fronts it, from map data rather than from the venue. The venue has not published that itself, so we are not naming it: the front is the one step that gets a stranger through this kind of door, and that is the venue’s to give.
No reservation system is published for this venue, which usually means walk-ins — but hours and door policy at hidden bars change often, so check before you travel.
What “inside another business” means in practice
A bar reached through a working business is the arrangement Prohibition actually produced. A shopfront that stood up to a glance from the street was the point, and the trade carried on behind it. The modern version keeps the structure and drops the risk: the front is a real business with real customers, and the door at the back is not hidden from anyone who asks. The practical consequence is that the front business’s hours can govern your access, not the bar’s.
The drinks at Milk Bar
How the venue describes itself: “CoClubs located in the South of Colfax Nightlife District (SoCo) is a family owned group of nightclub venues in Denver which seeks to foster a vibrant community based around diversity, music, and dance. For over 20 years we have provided unforgettable experiences for our patrons of all ages, races, genders, and…” (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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Milk Bar sits
Milk Bar is in Denver, Colorado, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists eleven speakeasies and hidden bars in Denver. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Denver.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Milk Bar are Denver Speakeasy, about 950 m away, Retrograde, about 1.6 km away, and Trybal African Speakeasy, about 1.6 km away.
Colorado holds 37 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Colorado speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Colorado
Colorado did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Colorado already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Colorado.
What the newspapers recorded in Denver
Searching the Library of Congress run of Colorado newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Denver:
- The Denver Jewish news, January 4, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Colorado statesman, October 20, 1923 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Denver Jewish news, May 25, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Colorado statesman, March 15, 1924 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Wednesday to Saturday, 9pm to 2am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Milk Bar by phone on (720) 416-6209, through its own website, and on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Tiktok.
The address is 1037 Broadway, Denver, CO 80203. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Milk Bar we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and opening hours. We do not yet hold 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 an entrance behind another business.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a nightclub.