4.5Peregrin
Historic District · Savannah, GA · 0.3 mi
A rooftop hotel bar over the live oaks, best at the hour when Savannah turns from gold to blue.
Hotel Bar
Georgia / Savannah
Artillery Bar
A former militia armory turned marble-and-brass cathedral of drinking, where phones stay pocketed and the ceilings do the talking.
Getting in
Jacket-adjacent dress code. No phones on the bar.
Order this
Champagne cocktail
Your passport
Prohibition Original rooms like this one are catalogued across the trail — see every prohibition original bar.
Keep the night going
Nearest doors
4.5
4.7Alley Cat Lounge
Historic District · Savannah, GA · 0.4 mi
A basement down a Savannah alley with a newspaper-sized menu and a bartender for every mood you arrive in.
Hidden Door
4.7Mata Hari
Historic District · Savannah, GA · 0.4 mi
Savannah's most theatrical secret: a candlelit parlor of espionage-era glamour behind an unmarked Broughton Street door.
Hidden Door
4.6S.O.S. Tiki Bar
Decatur · Decatur, GA · 219.8 mi
Bamboo, blowfish lamps and rum in vessels that should not exist — hidden behind a neighborhood pizza counter in Decatur.
Tiki Lounge
The Gear Room
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Harry Craddock's 1930 compendium, written while America was dry and London was not.
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Imbibe! — David Wondrich
The best history of the American bar before Prohibition closed it. Jerry Thomas as protagonist.
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
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