How do you get into Commerce Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Commerce Bar 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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Commerce Bar sits
Commerce Bar is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Pittsburgh. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Pittsburgh.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Commerce Bar are Hidden Harbor, about 2.6 km away, Confidant, about 3.2 km away, and James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, about 6.4 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 Commerce Bar by phone on (678) 789-4674 and on Instagram.
The address is Commerce, Pittsburgh, PA 15206. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Commerce Bar we hold street address, telephone number, and social accounts. We do not yet hold official website, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, 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.