Cocktail lounge, speakeasy Red Phone Booth will open in downtown Durham soon

[JohnS]

Cocktail lounge, speakeasy Red Phone Booth will open in downtown Durham soon

Saturday, May 31, 2025 11:29PM

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A 1920s speakeasy experience is coming to downtown Durham.

It's called the Red Phone Booth, a craft-cocktail and cigar lounge, and it will be the seventh location in the country and first in North Carolina.

You enter through a restored London red phone booth, dial the nightly secret code, and the door will swing open. Once inside, you're transported to the prohibition era.

It's "a candle-lit sanctuary of 1920s glamour" -- leather sofas, honey-onyx bar and the hum of jazz, the company said on its website.

The lounge is expected to open in Durham by the end of the year.

Source: https://abc11.com/post/red-phone-booth-cocktail-lounge-speakeasy-experience-will-open-downtown-durham-nc-soon/16610146/

[CigarCulture09]

I’ve been to the Red Phone Booth in Atlanta, GA and Nashville, TN. Both are nice spots. I believe they also have another location located in The Colony, TX just north of Dallas. 

[BrightonCorgi]

There is a speak easy style cigar bar in downtown Raleigh FWIW. I went there a couple of times.

[Chas.Alpha]

You mean for once I’m in the right place at the right time?😀

[BrightonCorgi]

14 hours ago, Chas.Alpha said:

You mean for once I’m in the right place at the right time?😀

You must've been to the one I am talking about downtown. Even better than that is smoking a cigar at the Angus Barn. That is a must visit every time I go to Raleigh. I worked in Cary every other week for 2+ years.