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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Add to the list the Hubble House in Mantorville, MN which opened its doors in 1856.
I have eaten in places from the 1780’s but not continually operated.
The Wayside Inn in Middletown Va has been serving for more than 200 years... Didn’t make the list.
I’m hungry again.
This list doesn’t include the Union Oyster House in Boston, which many people recognize as the oldest continuous restaurant in the USA (1826)
I’ve been to Louie’s lunch (where they insist they invented the hamburger), Keens, where I once owned a pipe and where one of the waiters, Andy Precopa came to my fathers funeral and at Katz’s deli where you better not order a side order because you will feel stuffed if you order a sandwich.
At Louie’s every word on the posted menu is misspelled because Louie got sick of Yalies pointing out the occasional misspelling. Hamburgers are served on slices of a Pullman loaf of bread.
Yes, I noticed the list didn’t mention Union Oyster House
Also, it should have mentioned Schwabl’s, just outside Buffalo NY.
On board the nuke sub USS Oklahoma City, the galley is named Cattlemen’s,,,
I’ve never had a bad steak there….
That there is funny to this bubblehead!
I used to be stationed at Tinker AFB and flew on the AWACS. Sometimes after a night flight, or if an early morning flight had a weather cancellation, I would go straight there, still in flight suit. Would hit the cafe side at around 0600 and have steak and eggs, with black coffee. Best steak and eggs, period. Used to go to the restaurant side for dinners as well. I sure miss that place.
Union Oyster House in Boston is missing.
Open since 1826.
Having lived in Manhattan and raised near New Orleans I’ve had the good fortune to go to nine of these ....including Varallos in Nashville where I live....in fact I know some the family
But man this list left off many New Orleans places that are older than much of this list
Galatoires
Tujagues
Arnauds
Mandinas
Broussards
Cafe du Monde.....hey beignets are food
I’m hungry
Sorry, but those restaurants in San Francisco that are temporarily closed due to Covid?
Off the list.
They don’t qualify as this is a list of restaurants that have been continuously operating for over 100 years. Thanks to San Francisco and it’s socialist policies regarding mandatory shut downs and closures, these fine old restaurants will have to start over.
As a boy we’d go to Cattleman’s downtown Dallas as a treat .....I’d share the chateaubriand with my mom
Tall cotton
Two other joints we favored in Dallas when I was a boy
Ports o Call on top of the Southland Life building and the Southern Kitchen ...off NW hwy
1960s
How could they miss the White Hart Inn in Salisbury, Connecticut? The restaurant is still open, and the Inn has been open since 1806. I took my fianceé (now my wife) there. It was is also near the historic Ragamont Inn, which is now closed.
I assume heavily here that there is a degree of “if you would like your restaurant to be on this list, send us a check for XXX and some sort of docs”
Wayside Inn, Publick House (in mass already mentioned) and I know there are several more in the Bos area claiming to be pre 1800.. Warren Tavern, Durgin Park, Green Dragon,
White Horse in RI 1673.
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