How do you get into Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Italian Cellar Speakeasy 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.
The drinks at Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar
How the venue describes itself: “Little Italy San Jose Italian Business District is anchored by a Gateawy Arch and a Cultural Center & Museum. Little Italy has several authentic Italian restaurants and events throughout the year.” (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.
Where Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar sits
Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar is in San Jose, California, in Santa Clara County, in the West of the United States. The city sits inside the Bay Area metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in San Jose. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in San Jose.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar are Public Speak Easy’s Toastmasters Club, about 250 m away, Norfair, about 5.3 km away, and The Hidden Lanai, about 5.6 km away.
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 Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar by phone on (408) 394-2893, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 323 1/2 Sharks Way, San Jose, CA 95110. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name places it below street level and calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.