How do you get into Speak Easy Restaurant?
We have not confirmed it. Speak Easy Restaurant 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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Speak Easy Restaurant sits
Speak Easy Restaurant is in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, in Becker County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Detroit Lakes. If you know another, tell us.
Minnesota holds 23 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Minnesota speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Minnesota
Minnesota 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 Minnesota.
What the newspapers recorded in Minnesota
Searching the Library of Congress run of Minnesota newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Minnesota:
- The Duluth rip-saw, January 10, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The labor world, January 24, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Princeton union, February 12, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Redwood gazette, June 30, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
The address is 1100 N Shore Dr, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501-4212. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speak Easy Restaurant we hold street address. We do not yet hold telephone number, 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.
The source data classifies the premises as lodging.