How do you get into Rossa Room Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. Rossa Room 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.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Rossa Room Speakeasy sits
Rossa Room Speakeasy is in Bellaire, Texas, in Harris County, in the Southwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Bellaire. If you know another, tell us.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Texas
Texas did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two 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, Texas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Texas.
What the newspapers recorded in Texas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Texas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Texas:
- El Paso herald, May 27, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Brownsville herald, July 2, 1922 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Snyder signal, June 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Laredo weekly times, August 15, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Rossa Room Speakeasy by phone on (346) 240-3780, through its own website, and on Facebook and Instagram.
The address is 4564 Bissonnet St, Bellaire, TX 77401. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Rossa Room Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a room rather than a bar 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.