How do you get into Oaks Lounge Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Oaks Lounge 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 Oaks Lounge Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Join us in the bourbon lounge below Natty Oaks….” (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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Oaks Lounge Speakeasy sits
Oaks Lounge Speakeasy is in West Allis, Wisconsin, in Milwaukee County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in West Allis. If you know another, tell us.
Wisconsin holds 44 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Wisconsin speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Wisconsin
Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin.
What the newspapers recorded in Wisconsin
Searching the Library of Congress run of Wisconsin newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Wisconsin:
- The Telegraph-courier, November 4, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, July 26, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Grant County herald, December 14, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Milwaukee leader, November 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Friday 11am – 2am
- Monday 11am – 12am
- Saturday 9am – 2am
- Sunday 9 am – 1 pm
- Sunday 9am – 12am
- Thursday 11am – 2am
- Tuesday 11am – 12am
- Wednesday 11am – 12am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Oaks Lounge Speakeasy by phone on (414) 543-2255, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 11505 W National Ave, West Allis, WI 53227. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Oaks Lounge Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold 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 and 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.