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.
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 Speakeasy sits
Speakeasy is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Hennepin County, in the Midwest of the United States. The city sits inside the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Minneapolis — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Minnesota page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy are Volstead’s Emporium, about 6.4 km away.
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 Minneapolis
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 Minneapolis:
- Twin-City herald, April 1, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Saturday press, November 5, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Twin-City herald, April 1, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Saturday press, October 22, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Speakeasy by phone on (262) 844-6400, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1300 NE Adams St, Minneapolis, MN 55413-1440. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold 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.