How do you get into Speakeasy Bar & Grill?
We have not confirmed it. Speakeasy Bar & Grill 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 Speakeasy Bar & Grill
How the venue describes itself: “Join us for great home-style cooking in Newport, RI!” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy Bar & Grill occupies the Charles Tillinghast House, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 72001576. 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 72001576 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy Bar & Grill sits
Speakeasy Bar & Grill is in Newport, Rhode Island, in the county of the same name, in the Northeast of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Newport. If you know another, tell us.
Rhode Island holds ten listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Rhode Island speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Rhode Island
Rhode Island 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.
Rhode Island was one of only two states that never ratified the Eighteenth Amendment. National prohibition applied here regardless, and enforcement was correspondingly unenthusiastic.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Rhode Island.
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy Bar & Grill by phone on (401) 847-3650, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 250 Thames St, Newport, RI 02840. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy Bar & Grill we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a pub.