How do you get into Secret’s Cocktail Garden?
We have not confirmed it. Secret’s Cocktail Garden is in the directory because it described as secret, 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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Secret’s Cocktail Garden sits
Secret’s Cocktail Garden is in Richmond, Virginia, in the county of the same name, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Richmond — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Virginia page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Secret’s Cocktail Garden are The Speakeasy Grill, about 200 m away and The Sheppard Street Speakeasy, about 3.6 km away.
Virginia holds 30 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Virginia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Virginia
Virginia 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, Virginia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Virginia.
What the newspapers recorded in Richmond
Searching the Library of Congress run of Virginia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Richmond:
- Richmond times-dispatch, October 17, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond planet, January 11, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond times-dispatch, March 7, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond planet, November 17, 1928 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Secret’s Cocktail Garden by phone on (800) 290-9814 and on Facebook.
The address is 16 E Marshall St, Richmond, VA 23219. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Secret’s Cocktail Garden we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, 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 secret and 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.