How do you get into Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. 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 Speakeasy
How the venue describes itself: “Domain is expired” (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: Adonis, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
The building and the district
Documented — Speakeasy stands inside the Carrboro Commercial Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places under reference number 85001339. 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 85001339 · NPS nomination document
Where Speakeasy sits
Speakeasy is in Carrboro, North Carolina, in Orange County, in the South Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Carrboro — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the North Carolina page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to Speakeasy are Speakeasy Carrboro, a few doors away and Speak Easy At Tyler’s, a few doors away.
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
Hours published by the venue:
- Monday to Thursday, 3pm to midnight
- Friday to Saturday, 11am to 2am
- Sunday, 11am to midnight
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach Speakeasy by phone on (919) 929-6881 and through its own website.
The address is 102 East Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Speakeasy we hold street address, telephone number, official website, opening hours, and a listed-building record. We do not yet hold social accounts, a published drinks list, or an online booking link.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a speakeasy.
OpenStreetMap carries this venue, contributed by a mapper; Overture Maps has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.