How do you get into Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Saint Restaurant Bar & 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.
The drinks at Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Welcome to SAINT, one of the best restaurants in East Village, NYC. Enjoy delicious food, craft cocktails, and an unforgettable dining experience in Manhattan.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The venue publishes a price range of $$.
The current drinks list is published on the venue’s own site — see the menu.
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy sits
Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy is in New York, New York, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 66 speakeasies and hidden bars in New York. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in New York.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy are Angel’s Share, about 200 m away, Speakeasy NYC, about 200 m away, and The Red Room at KGB, about 350 m away.
New York holds 101 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New York speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New York
New York 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 New York.
What the newspapers recorded in New York
Searching the Library of Congress run of New York newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New York:
- The daily worker, December 15, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, July 14, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, August 5, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The daily worker, October 16, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Friday 5:00 PM – 2:00 AM
- Saturday 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Thursday 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Wednesday 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy by phone on (347) 588-9817, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok.
The address is 136 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Saint Restaurant Bar & Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold 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.