What's the oldest restaurant you've dined at?

[mumto3girls]

Union Oyster House in Boston
Pirate House in Savannah

 

[tink1970]

White Horse Tavern in Newport (1673) and in Europe, St Peter Stiftskulinarium in Salzburg, Austria (possibly as old as 803 AD).

 

[happymommy]

White Horse Tavern in Newport (1673) and in Europe, St Peter Stiftskulinarium in Salzburg, Austria (possibly as old as 803 AD).

I had dinner at the White Horse Tavern once too; best dinner ever! DH was stationed in Newport for the summer (Naval Justice School) and we lived in a hotel for the whole summer (and had per diem so ate out every day). There were so many great restaurants, but White Horse Tavern was our anniversary and amazing.

 

[Raspus]

Union Oyster House in Boston.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Probably the Old Bell Tavern on Fleet Street in London. It's been licensed for 300+ years and built by Christopher Wren for the masons rebuilding St. Bride's Church after the Great Fire.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Durgin Park in Faneuil Hall in Boston. Unfortunately it closed in 2019. My DW's grandmother waited tables here when she was a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durgi...ries,tourist destination within Quincy Market.
EDIT:
Now that I think about it I've eaten at the Union Oyster House too. my DW and I had a more special connection to Durgin Park though.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

We have a Woolworth’s luncheonette here, the rest of the building has been converted to an antique mall.

Bakersfield?

 

[Kitty 34]

In recent years probably Win Schuler's in Marshall, MI

 

[Ladyandthepuppies]

There used to be a restaurant in Merion Station, PA called the General Wayne Inn which was considered the oldest continuously-operating restaurant in the US from 1704 until it closed in 2002. I was trying to remember when it closed so last night I googled it and fell deep into the rabbit hole of reading about the supposed ghosts and very real murder that occurred there. Apparently there was a 1988 Unsolved Mysteries about the ghosts, and in 1996 the murder story was on America’s Most Wanted. (Don’t be an idiot like me and read about it right before bedtime!) My husband’s grandfather did some plumbing for them back in the day and allegedly saw the Hessian ghost. He said the ghost said “Can you see me?” in a surprised way and then his grandfather left in a hurry.

Anyway, it’s not on the list since it’s not still a restaurant (it’s now a synagogue) but it will probably always be the oldest restaurant I’ll have eaten in.

 

[LuvN~Travel]

We have a small hole in the wall joint downtown here called Chris's Hotdogs. They have been open over a 100 years now (celebrated their 100th anniversary a couple of years back). And, they don't server anything but hotdogs, hamburgers and chicken strips. Plus some pie. But, despite that it is a local favorite!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Probably Log Inn in Haubstadt, IN... Abraham Lincoln stopped there they say.

 

[JoanneAZ]

The Palace Restaurant and Saloon in Prescott Arizona. It opened in 1877 and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were patrons back in the day. It was part of an entire street filled with saloons that was dubbed Whisky Row back in the 1880s. It’s also been used in several movies.

 

[North of Mouse]

Wonderland Hotel in Elkmont, TN (inside Great Smokies Nat. Park). It closed in 1996 and has since been demolished - was the only dining or hotel within the park - was near Elkmont Campground.

 

[MrsPete]

The Pirate House in Savannah, Georgia

 

[GreatLakes]

When I was in Italy I ate in some old restaurants. I'm not sure the specific establishment was all that old but some of the physical spaces dated back to the Etruscans. Pienza, Siena, and Montepulciano are the three likely candidates.

 

[mrodgers]

Both located in Pittsburgh, the O in Oakland and Primanti Bros in the strip. I have no idea which one was older.

Primanti Bros 1933. The O (I've never been there) 1960.

This made me look at my local restaurants. Neat, I love an excuse to read about the local history. The place everyone tells a visitor to eat is Monroe Hotel, 1898.

A little historic town of Harmony is Harmony Inn, started out as home in 1856, sold at unknown date when his railroad business failed and became the Zeigler Hotel. 1985 the current owners purchased and renovated the saloon for craft beers (very good) and opened the upstairs to dining.

Owners of the Harmony Inn owns North Country Brewing, built in 1805 and registered as an Inn in 1835. Ha, I love this! - "Soon thereafter, Peter and William went from innkeeping to cabinet making and by the time of the Civil War, to coffin making. Apparently business was very good and it soon occurred to the Ubers, in their dead reckoning, that undertaking was the next logical step. Soon their shop became “Uber and Sons Undertakers and Furniture Dealers.” The business flourished, even if their customers did not."

 

[SandyinMonterey]

Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room in Savannah GA. Waiting about 2 hours in line, they don't take reservations. Cash only. The person at the checkout register when I was there was an eldery man who was an ancestor. He was adorable.

 

[barb969]

Middleton’s Tavern, Annapolis, Md.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other leaders were there.

 

[RangerPooh]

Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkely Ca. 1890. It was one of my great-grandparents favorite places to eat.

Having lived in the CA gold country I've eaten in many small establishments where the buildings dated from the 1850s, but weren't always restaurants.

Ate in a restaurant in Williamsburg, don't know how old the restaurant is, but the home was in the historic sector so 1700s?

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Dh and I have eaten at Antoine’s in New Orleans and Dh has been to the Cranbury Inn in New Jersey with his parents.