How do you get into Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites?
We have not confirmed it. Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites is in the directory because it a hidden entrance, 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.
The building
Documented — Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites occupies the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 74000663. The listing is a federal record maintained by the National Park Service, and the nomination document is the primary source for the building’s architectural and social history.
National Register reference 74000663 · NPS nomination document
Where Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites sits
Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites 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 Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites are Congress Street Up, about 300 m away, The Bootlegger Savannah Speakeasy, about 450 m away, and Mata Hari’s Speakeasy, about 500 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
Planning a visit
You can reach Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites by phone on (912) 298-6468, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 12 W State St, Savannah, GA 31401. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Mint to Be Mojito Bar and Bites we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.