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'AMERICA'S OLDEST RESTAURANT'

11/3/2019

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Ye Olde Union Oyster House is America's Oldest Restaurant, a block from Faneuil Hall on The Freedom Trail in Boston.
So if you're eating at the oldest restaurant in the U.S.A., and it's in Boston, with the Atlantic Ocean nearby, you're probably going to have a seafood meal. For the first time I ate raw oysters, "throwing them back" as is the proper technique, and they weren't bad. I then enjoyed this meal:
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Lobster and corn at Ye Olde Union Oyster House in Boston.
I had lobster once before in New England, several years ago in Maine with Gay Kirkton. You may disagree, but to me, these guys are a lot of work and mess  for no more meat you get out of them.  But I'm glad I ordered the big guy. When in Boston, eat like a Bostonian!
But just think. This restaurant has been here since 1826. But let's go back before that. Upstairs, possibly in the very spot where our group dined, starting in 1771, Issiah Thomas printed "The Massachusetts Spy. The paper's motto? "Open to all parties, but influenced by none." It's our nation's oldest newspaper. 

In 1775, Ebenezer Hancock of the Continental Army established headquarters for early Federal troops here. During the Revolution, you would have seen the Adams, Hancock and Quincy women and their neighbors sewing bandages and clothing for the columnists in the building.

And who should live on the second floor? No less than the future King of France, the exiled Louis Philippe.
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Daniel Webster spent time at the Oyster Bar, which has been in the restaurant since its founding in 1826.
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It was a fine evening at Ye Olde Union Oyster House. Our group had an upstairs room to ourselves. Oh, if those brick walls could talk ...
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