How do you get into The Shadows?
We have not confirmed it. The Shadows 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 The Shadows
How the venue describes itself: “The Shadows has an immaculate vibe of an authentic speakeasy from the 1920’s and 1930’s era. The Shadows is Wichita’s new speakeasy offers high-quality and innovative food in a cozy, comfortable burlesque atmosphere meta name=”strip club” content=”Wichita, KS” meta name=”adult entertainment” content=”Wichita, KS”…” (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: Blood and Sand, Bobby Burns, and Rob Roy are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where The Shadows sits
The Shadows is in Wichita, Kansas, in Sedgwick County, in the Great Plains of the United States.
Our directory currently lists three speakeasies and hidden bars in Wichita — too few for a city guide of its own yet, so they sit on the Kansas page until there are more.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Shadows are The Brass Taproom, about 2.3 km away and Speakeasy, about 7.9 km away.
Kansas holds 17 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Kansas speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Kansas
Kansas did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1881, 39 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, Kansas already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Kansas.
What the newspapers recorded in Kansas
Searching the Library of Congress run of Kansas newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Kansas:
- The Topeka state journal, November 22, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Western Kansas world, April 14, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Topeka state journal, February 26, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The Topeka state journal, May 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
Hours published by the venue:
- Tuesday – Saturday 7pm-2am
Hours as published on the venue’s own site, retrieved 9 October 2026.
You can reach The Shadows by phone on (316) 844-2344, through its own website, and on Facebook, Instagram, and X.
The address is 6339 W Kellogg Dr, Wichita, KS 67209. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Shadows we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, opening hours, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold an online booking link or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because 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.