How do you get into Speak Easy & Eatery?
We have not confirmed it. Speak Easy & Eatery is in the directory because it calls itself a speakeasy, 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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speak Easy & Eatery sits
Speak Easy & Eatery is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the county of the same name, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Milwaukee. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Milwaukee.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speak Easy & Eatery are Bugsy’s Back Alley Saloon, about 800 m away, Bugsy’s Back Alley Speakeasy, about 850 m away, and Naughty Angel, about 2.1 km away.
Wisconsin holds 44 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Wisconsin speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Wisconsin
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin.
What the newspapers recorded in Milwaukee
Searching the Library of Congress run of Wisconsin newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Milwaukee:
- The Milwaukee leader, June 28, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, August 23, 1929 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, March 12, 1929 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, February 11, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speak Easy & Eatery by phone on (414) 224-8400.
The address is 710 N Old World 3rd St, Milwaukee, WI 53203. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speak Easy & Eatery we hold street address and telephone number. We do not yet hold official website, social accounts, 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 a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.