How do you get into Blue Ruin Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Blue Ruin 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.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Blue Ruin Speakeasy sits
Blue Ruin Speakeasy is in Metairie, Louisiana, in the Jefferson Parish, in the Deep South of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Metairie. If you know another, tell us.
Louisiana holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Louisiana speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Louisiana
Louisiana 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 Louisiana.
What the newspapers recorded in Louisiana
Searching the Library of Congress run of Louisiana newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Louisiana:
- St. Landry clarion, May 1, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The St. Charles herald, May 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Bogalusa enterprise and American, July 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The weekly Iberian, September 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Blue Ruin Speakeasy by phone on (504) 835-3335, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 3224 Metairie Rd, Metairie, LA 70001. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Blue Ruin 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 map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.