How do you get into Scotty Doesn’t Know?
We have not confirmed it. Scotty Doesn’t Know 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 Scotty Doesn’t Know
How the venue describes itself: “null” (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: French 75, Clover Club, and Aviation are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Scotty Doesn’t Know sits
Scotty Doesn’t Know is in Charleston, South Carolina, in the county of the same name, in the South Atlantic of the United States. The city sits inside the The Lowcountry metropolitan area.
Our directory currently lists four speakeasies and hidden bars in Charleston. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Charleston.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Scotty Doesn’t Know are Scotty Doesn’t Know Speakeasy, a few doors away, Blind Tiger, about 600 m away, and Smokin Rose Speakeasy, about 4.3 km away.
South Carolina holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our South Carolina speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in South Carolina
South Carolina did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1915, five 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, South Carolina already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in South Carolina.
What the newspapers recorded in Charleston
Searching the Library of Congress run of South Carolina newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Charleston:
- Southern Christian advocate, April 8, 1926 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Southern Christian advocate, July 21, 1927 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Southern Christian advocate, July 30, 1925 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Southern Christian advocate, July 24, 1924 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Wednesday to Saturday, 5pm to 1am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Scotty Doesn’t Know by phone on (843) 641-7269, through its own website, and on Instagram and Facebook.
The address is 251 East Bay Street, Charleston, SC 29401. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Scotty Doesn’t Know we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, and an online booking link. We do not yet hold a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because the map tags on the record include a speakeasy tag.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.