World's oldest restaurants
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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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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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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. -
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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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.
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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/
