How do you get into The Room Santa Monica?
We have not confirmed it. The Room Santa Monica 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 Room Santa Monica
How the venue describes itself: “Established in 1993. Based in Los Angeles, CIRCA 93 owns and operates a collective of upscale and unique bars including: The Continental Club (Downtown), The Association (Downtown), The Queensberry (Downtown), The Room Santa Monica, and The Room Hollywood.” (from its own website, retrieved 9 October 2026)
Beyond what the venue publishes we have not verified a 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 Room Santa Monica sits
The Room Santa Monica is in Santa Monica, California, in Los Angeles County, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists two speakeasies and hidden bars in Santa Monica — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the California page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Room Santa Monica are The Speak Easy, about 1.3 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 California
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 California:
- La prensa, March 6, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, June 14, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, October 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Imperial Valley press, November 5, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Room Santa Monica by phone on (866) 687-4499, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 1325 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Room Santa Monica 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 room rather than a bar 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.