How do you get into The Bee’s Knees Kitchen & Speakeasy Bar?
We have not confirmed it. The Bee’s Knees Kitchen & Speakeasy Bar 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Bee’s Knees Kitchen & Speakeasy Bar sits
The Bee’s Knees Kitchen & Speakeasy Bar is in Cape May, New Jersey, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States. The city sits inside the Jersey Shore metropolitan area.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Cape May. If you know another, tell us.
New Jersey holds 23 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Jersey speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Jersey
New Jersey 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 New Jersey.
What the newspapers recorded in New Jersey
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Jersey newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Jersey:
- The Lambertville record, April 16, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, February 28, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, March 29, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Perth Amboy evening news, November 7, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Bee’s Knees Kitchen & Speakeasy Bar by phone on (609) 778-1787, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 501 Beach Ave, Cape May, NJ 08204. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Bee’s Knees Kitchen & Speakeasy Bar 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.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.