How do you get into The Del Monte Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The Del Monte 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 The Del Monte Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “The oldest bar in Venice, est. 1915. Craft cocktails, live music, DJs and shows seven nights a week at the Del Monte Speakeasy. Open till 2am.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
The venue publishes a price range of $$.
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.
Where The Del Monte Speakeasy sits
The Del Monte Speakeasy is in Los Angeles, California, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists 33 speakeasies and hidden bars in Los Angeles. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Los Angeles.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Del Monte Speakeasy are Townhouse & Del Monte Speakeasy, a few doors away, Force of Nature, about 550 m away, and Rose Cafe & Restaurant, about 1.1 km away.
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 Los Angeles
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 Los Angeles:
- La opinión, August 9, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La opinión, August 16, 1931 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La opinión, March 30, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- La opinión, October 10, 1933 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Monday – Friday 5pm – 2am
- Sun 3pm – 2am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Del Monte Speakeasy by phone on (310) 392-4040, through its own website, and on X, Facebook, and Instagram.
The address is 52 Windward Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90291. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Del Monte Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and opening hours. We do not yet hold 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 and the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.