Restaurants, Nightclubs and Speakeasies

Chance's Restaurant, 1935, later the site of the Blue Gentian. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 20, 2001
During Prohibition, Saranac Lake had "at least a dozen speakeasies, which operated more or less within the knowledge of the police" ¹
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 22, 1955

• Alpine Tavern


• Altamont Dairy Bar


• Alta Vista Lodge


• Ampersand Grill


• Back Door Restaurant and Tavern


• Bailey's Delicatessen


• Belvedere


• The Birches


• Bernie Wilson's Restaurant


• Birk's Swiss Chalet


• Black Cat


• Blue Bird Tea Room


• Blue Gentian


• Brown Bear Restaurant


• Chance's Restaurant


• Coach and Four


• Colby Lake Lodge


• Colonial Inn


• Crescent Moon Restaurant


• Dew Drop Inn


• Dickies (comprising the One Minute Lunch and the City Restaurant)


• Downing and Cane's


• Durgan's Grill


• Elks Club


• Hennessey's Bar and Grill


• Hesseltine's


• Hob Nob


• Hotel Saranac


• Journey's End


• Lakeview Grill


• La Petite Restaurant


• Larry's Lunch


• Mack's Restaurant


• Major's Inn


• Mark's Restaurant Bar and Grill


• McVeety's diner


• Minute Lunch


• Miss Saranac Diner


• Morgans 11


• Mr. Quigley's


• Mt. Baker Club


• New York Restaurant


• Overlook


• The Pines


• Pontiac Club


• Ray Brook Inn


• Red Mill


• The Ritz


• Riverside Bar and Grill


• The Porch


• Sagendorf Restaurant


• Schroeter's Restaurant


• The Silhouette


• Swinging Tiger


• Tally Ho


• Walseman's Restaurant

See also 1937 Saranac Lake Veterans of Foreign Wars Encampment Program

Where to Eat, 1948. From a program of the Rebekah Lodge for the 1948 Rebekah Assembly.