How do you get into Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Pulp Bourbon 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 Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Live Music Venue in Asheville, NC. Voted one of Rolling Stone’s Top 5 Rock Clubs in the US!” (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: Old Fashioned, Boulevardier, and Ward Eight are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building and the district
Documented — Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy stands inside the Downtown Asheville Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 11000972. A district listing covers a group of properties rather than a single address, so the federal record establishes the age and character of the streetscape around this venue rather than of its own walls.
National Register reference 11000972 · NPS nomination document
Where Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy sits
Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy is in Asheville, North Carolina, in Buncombe County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Asheville. If you know another, tell us.
North Carolina holds 42 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our North Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in North Carolina
North Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1909, eleven years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, North Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in North Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in North Carolina
Searching the Library of Congress run of North Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from North Carolina:
- Roanoke Rapids herald, September 30, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, June 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, May 8, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The independent, March 25, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy by phone on (828) 398-1837, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Tiktok.
The address is 103 Hilliard Ave, Asheville, NC 28801. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Pulp Bourbon Lounge & Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a lounge and calls it a speakeasy and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.