How do you get into Evening Citizen?
We have not confirmed it. Evening Citizen 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 Evening Citizen
How the venue describes itself: “The Evening Citizen, Palm Springs” (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: Sidecar, Boulevardier, and Vieux Carré are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Evening Citizen sits
Evening Citizen is in Palm Springs, California, in Riverside County, in the West of the United States. The city sits inside the Inland Empire metropolitan area.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Palm Springs. If you know another, tell us.
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 Evening Citizen through its own website and on Instagram and Facebook.
The address is 220 E Arenas Rd, Palm Springs, CA 92262. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Evening Citizen we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, a published drinks list, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the description in the source data describes it as a speakeasy.
Two independent open datasets, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, both carry this venue at this location. Agreement between them is the strongest existence check we can make without visiting.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.