Posted on 02/08/2022 7:59:48 AM PST by mylife
The restaurant business is a tough one, and the COVID-19 pandemic almost all but destroyed it. Even before closures became mandatory, restaurants came and went with regularity. Statistics on restaurant failure rates vary widely. Oneestimatesuggests that up to 90% of independent eating places close within their first year of operation.
Unmanageable rent increases, changes in customer demographics or consumer tastes, fires or the effects of natural disasters, and the deaths and divorces (or simply retirement) of owners are among the many reasons that even thriving eating places fail.< P>
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Live in OKC. Eaten at cattlemen’s a lot of times over the years. Great steak. Interesting little place in the stockyards. Wear jeans, boots, and western shirt. Fit right in :)
Union Oyster House in Boston has been there since before the 1850s and has been continuously running since the 1890s:
https://www.santorinichicago.com/what-is-the-oldest-restaurant-in-boston/
Weidmann’s in Meridian, MS has been in operation since 1870:
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/mississippi/weidmanns-restaurant-meridian-ms/
I have eaten at both, and there must be plenty of others older than this faux list provides.
FW has several good ones.
I visit Cattlemen’ Steakhouse a couple times a month- good eats. Have the dinner rolls too when you’re there.
Thought that was the Charco Broiler in Oak Cliff for a minute.
This list is crap. Tujague’s in New Orleans dates to 1852. The Ashby Inn in Virginia was known to George Washington, as was Fraunces Tavern in NYC.
Me, too.
We will definitely put the Austin TX spot on our list.
We try to avoid Austin, altogether, since the traffic is horrid, 24/7, but may have to find a workaround to check that one out.
Opened in 1776 in Essex, Connecticut
I’ve only been to Louis’ in New Haven. I’m glad it made the list.
I do firmly believe they invented the hamburger. Never been to the other ones, but I wanted to chime into your post to share my experiences. I would get on a plane and suffer through Northeast airports and trains to get to this place.
There is also a place around the corner called “Mamouns” which is a mediterrean place that is pretty authentic. Cheap food, sparking wires run along the walls and “The Worst Toilet in Scotland” around the back.
Thanks.....will remember that, if we are ever up that way.
I’m wondering how accurate this list really is. I live just a few miles from a place in one of the original thirteen states that first opened as a “Publick House” while Thomas Jefferson was president.
Ate at the San Fran Old Clam House circa 2001-2. Was there with another couple and we got the Cioppino for 4. What a monster load of outstanding seafood, and the house-made crispy kettle bread is not to be passed up.
Nice post. Have been to Louis Lunch many times and one or two others.
I really do think it odd that they are including restaurants that have actually changed names along with ownership over the years.
Not included is the Wayside Inn, Strasburg, VA, and more than a few others. In any case a lovely list of American classics.
Let me conclude by re-iterating that it is Just and Right that American businesses be selectively shut down by our Benevolent Government in the Name of the Health and Well-being of the Collective as determined by our Leaders PBUT.
Been to Peter Luger many times. I have their credit card. Been to Keen’s when it was still the Chop House not Steakhouse. My dad took me several times when I was in HS. He loved the mutton chop. I was more there for the double rib lamb chops.
One change at Peter Luger. Now that Williamsburg is cool with millennials and until recently crime there had nosedived those red capped guys who patrolled the surrounding streets watching out for the parked cars are no more.
In Boston several other very old restaurants closed in recent times. Jacob Wirth's which was started in 1868 closed in 2018. They were apparently the first distributor for Anheuser Busch and Wirth was a founder of Narragansett beer.
Ah, Mamoun’s. Lovely place to work on a senior essay at 3am over Turkish coffee, unfiltered Luckys and the empty gaze of emo heroin addicts who normally hang out in the Daily Caffe.
Agree! The Columbia in St. Augustine has outstanding food. Their paella is the best anywhere IMHO.
The Pekin Noodle Parlor in Butte MT has been in business since the 1880’s. There were a lot of Chinese people in Butte during the mining heyday.
Hard to believe Chowning’s, Christiana Campbell’s, and King’s Arms don’t make it. All three are pre-Revolution.
ML/NJ
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