How do you get into Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Bar 33 – Memphis 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 Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “At Barons Bar + Barbershop, the award-winning Memphis area barbershop now includes Memphis’ exclusive new speakeasy. Join the Inner Circle.” (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 Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy sits
Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy is in Memphis, Tennessee, in Shelby County, in the Deep South of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Memphis — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Tennessee page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy are Blind Bear, about 14.8 km away and Fat Charlie’s Speakeasy, about 15.4 km away.
Tennessee holds 24 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Tennessee speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Tennessee
Tennessee did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven 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, Tennessee already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Tennessee.
What the newspapers recorded in Memphis
Searching the Library of Congress run of Tennessee newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Memphis:
- The news scimitar, June 23, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The news scimitar, December 8, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy by phone on (901) 676-1722, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 702 S Mendenhall Rd, Memphis, TN 38117. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Bar 33 – Memphis Speakeasy 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 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.