How do you get into The Newsroom Philly?
We have not confirmed it. The Newsroom Philly 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 Newsroom Philly
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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Newsroom Philly sits
The Newsroom Philly is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the county of the same name, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists thirteen speakeasies and hidden bars in Philadelphia. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Philadelphia.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Newsroom Philly are The Blind Pig, about 700 m away, JL Sullivan’s Speakeasy, about 3.0 km away, and Omertà, about 4.0 km away.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach The Newsroom Philly by phone on (267) 666-2701, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok.
The address is 1102 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19123. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Newsroom Philly we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold opening hours or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because 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.