World's oldest restaurants
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wrote on 26 Dec 2024, 22:49 last edited by
The Oldest Restaurants in the World, From Berlin to Boston
From an inn George Washington once stayed in to a restaurant that once catered to a Holy Roman Emperor
https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/the-oldest-restaurants-in-the-world?utm_placement=newsletter
Anyone been to any of these?
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wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 00:14 last edited by
None of those, but I once ate at Durgin-Park in Boston (now closed but open since at least 1827). New England boiled dinners and chowder at long communal tables.
Here in NYC the old Delmonico’s still exists. I like to look in the windows at the heavy curtains and plush furnishings. But I haven’t eaten there.
Fraunces Tavern is still there, where Washington met with his troops; they keep an upstairs room as a museum.
None of these places in 2024 can be expected to offer the kinds of food they served in earlier times.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 05:43 last edited by AndyD
None of those, but probably the oldest place Ive eaten in is The George.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Inn,_Southwark
Could have been an Inn on the site way back in the 13th century. -
wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 07:08 last edited by
Everything over there is layered in history in a way you don't see here. It's the only foreign country I've visited. I visited it when I was fourteen on a student trip for two weeks. I loved it and had such a good time.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 17:00 last edited by
I haven’t eaten any of those but I have eaten at the oldest restaurant in AZ (The Palace - Prescott), the oldest restaurant in CA (Tadich Grill, SF) and the oldest restaurant in Tucson (el Charro).
Greg has eaten at the one in Boston.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 20:17 last edited by
I haven’t been to any of those but we did have dinner at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese when we were in London and it seems to have a similar pedigree to the other London place they mention.
https://ye-olde-cheshire-cheese.co.uk/about/ -
wrote on 27 Dec 2024, 20:25 last edited by
100 years younger, but Butte has the nation’s oldest continuously run Chinese restaurant. I haven’t been. (It hasn’t gotten exactly glowing reviews from friends lately for food) Started somewhere around 1909. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/history-first-chinese-restaurant-in-america-180980552/