How do you get into Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar?
We have not confirmed it. Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar 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 Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar
How the venue describes itself: “Westel’s downtown Willoughby. Home of great cocktails. Speakeasy with a local vibe.” (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: Mary Pickford, El Presidente, and Hotel Nacional Special are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar sits
Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar is in Willoughby, Ohio, in Lake County, in the Midwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Willoughby. If you know another, tell us.
Ohio holds 54 listed venues in this directory. See them all on our Ohio speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in Ohio
Ohio 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 Ohio.
What the newspapers recorded in Ohio
Searching the Library of Congress run of Ohio newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from Ohio:
- The toiler, February 13, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, June 17, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, December 31, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- The American issue, November 4, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar by phone on (440) 710-6030, through its own website, and on Facebook and X.
The address is 4084 Erie St, Willoughby, OH 44094. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Westel’s Speakeasy and Cocktail Bar we hold street address, telephone number, official website, social accounts, and a published drinks list. We do not yet hold opening hours, 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.