How do you get into The Hidden Cellar?
We have not confirmed it. The Hidden Cellar is in the directory because it described as hidden, 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: Bronx, Monkey Gland, and Hanky Panky are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Hidden Cellar sits
Our record places The Hidden Cellar in Harris County, Texas, in the Southwest of the United States. The source data carries coordinates and a county or region but no municipality, which usually means an address outside an incorporated city, or a record that was never given one. The map pin is the reliable part.
Texas holds 110 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Texas speakeasy guide.
If you know which town The Hidden Cellar is in, tell us and we will place it properly.
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 The Hidden Cellar by phone on (281) 304-2940 and through its own website.
The address is 16518 House Hahl Rd, TX 77433-1901. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Hidden Cellar we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name places it below street level and calls it hidden.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.