How do you get into The Blind Pig?
We have not confirmed it. The Blind Pig is in the directory because it blind pig or blind tiger, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
The drinks at The Blind Pig
How the venue describes itself: “”The” Bar for those wanting a bite to eat, have a pint and a laugh, or to gear up and cool down from watching the Reds or Bengals nearby.” (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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Blind Pig occupies the H. & S. Pogue Service Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 100012608. 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 100012608 · NPS nomination document
Where The Blind Pig sits
The Blind Pig is in Cincinnati, Ohio, in Hamilton County, in the Midwest of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Cincinnati — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Ohio page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Blind Pig are The Spy Club, about 450 m away and The Video Archive, about 3.7 km away.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio 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 Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Sundays 11AM-2AM
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Blind Pig by phone on (513) 381-3114, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 24 W 3rd St, Cincinnati, OH 45202. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Blind Pig we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, and a listed-building record, which is an unusually complete record for this category.
It is in the directory because its own name uses blind pig or blind tiger, the Prohibition terms.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.