How do you get into The Speakeasy Grill?
We have not confirmed it. The Speakeasy Grill 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 Speakeasy Grill
How the venue describes itself: “The Hippodrome Theater is located in Historic Jackson Ward; which became known as the “Harlem of the South,” a reference to its Black heritage, culture and its musical tradition. In it…” (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: Corpse Reviver No. 2, White Lady, and Twentieth Century are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building
Documented — The Speakeasy Grill occupies the Fraternal Order of Eagles Building, a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 06000346. 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 06000346 · NPS nomination document
Where The Speakeasy Grill sits
The Speakeasy Grill is in Richmond, Virginia, in the county of the same name, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Richmond — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Virginia page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Speakeasy Grill are Secret’s Cocktail Garden, about 200 m away and The Sheppard Street Speakeasy, about 3.7 km away.
Virginia holds 30 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Virginia speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Virginia
Virginia did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, Virginia already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Virginia.
What the newspapers recorded in Richmond
Searching the Library of Congress run of Virginia newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Richmond:
- Richmond times-dispatch, October 17, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond planet, January 11, 1930 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond times-dispatch, March 7, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Richmond planet, November 17, 1928 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The Speakeasy Grill by phone on (804) 308-2913, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 526 N 2nd St, Richmond, VA 23219. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Speakeasy Grill we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, a published drinks list, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours or an online booking link.
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 restaurant.