How do you get into Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey 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 Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Kapono’s at The Lounge is Hawai‘i’s new home for live music and aloha — a waterfront collaboration between the Henry Kapono Foundation and The Lounge at Island Sound Studios, offering intimate performances, curated events, and a vibrant space for the music community.” (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 Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy sits
Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy is in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the county of the same name, in the West of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Honolulu. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Honolulu.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy are Green Lady Cocktail Room, about 12.2 km away, Club Secret, about 14.0 km away, and Sandy’s Place, about 14.1 km away.
Hawaii holds seven listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Hawaii speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Hawaii
Hawaii 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 Hawaii.
Planning a visit
You can reach Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy through its own website and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 377 Keahole St, Honolulu, HI 96825. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Kapono’s at The Lounge / The Velvet Monkey Speakeasy we hold street address, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold telephone number, opening hours, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a lounge and calls it a speakeasy.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a music venue.