How do you get into The New Tunnel Supper Club?
We have not confirmed it. The New Tunnel Supper Club 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: Jack Rose, Diamondback, and Brown Derby are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The New Tunnel Supper Club sits
The New Tunnel Supper Club is in Telluride, Colorado, in San Miguel County, in the West of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Telluride. If you know another, tell us.
Colorado holds 37 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Colorado speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Colorado
Colorado did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1916, four 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, Colorado already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Colorado.
What the newspapers recorded in Colorado
Searching the Library of Congress run of Colorado newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Colorado:
- The Holly chieftain, January 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon, March 11, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Gilpin observer, March 18, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Gilpin observer, July 8, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach The New Tunnel Supper Club by phone on (970) 708-3663, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 700 W Colorado Ave #242, Telluride, CO 81435. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The New Tunnel Supper Club we hold street address, telephone number, official website, and social accounts. We do not yet hold opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it a lounge 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.