How do you get into The Speakeasy?
We have not confirmed it. The 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.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own 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 Speakeasy sits
The Speakeasy is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County, in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.
Our directory currently lists five speakeasies and hidden bars in Pittsburgh. The full list is on our guide to hidden bars in Pittsburgh.
Measured from the map pins, the closest of those to The Speakeasy are James Street Gastropub & Speakeasy, about 1.6 km away, Confidant, about 4.8 km away, and Commerce Bar, about 6.5 km away.
Pennsylvania holds 71 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Pennsylvania speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania came under national prohibition on 17 January 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect and the Volstead Act defined an intoxicating beverage as anything above one half of one per cent alcohol — a threshold strict enough to close breweries that had expected to survive.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in Pennsylvania.
Planning a visit
You can reach The Speakeasy by phone on (412) 281-7100, through its own website, and on Facebook.
The address is 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For The Speakeasy 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 speakeasy and the map tags on the record mark it a cocktail bar.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a bar.