How do you get into Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. 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 Speakeasy
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: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — Speakeasy occupies the Bank of Eureka Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 82002180. 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 82002180 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy sits
Speakeasy is in Eureka, California, in Humboldt County, in the West of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Eureka. If you know another, tell us.
California holds 173 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our California speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in California
California 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 California.
What the newspapers recorded in California
Searching the Library of Congress run of California newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from California:
- La prensa, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, June 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, October 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, November 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Friends 7pm – 10pm
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Speakeasy by phone on (707) 444-2244, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 411 Opera Alley, Eureka, CA 95501. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold 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 bar.