America's Oldest Restaurant
Wednesday June 29, 2005
Union Oyster House is not only Boston's oldest restaurant, it's the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the United States. If you're looking for old-fashioned Yankee atmosphere, this is the place to dine in Boston.
Comments
I come by once a year for a Lobster Roll and a bowl of chowder.
Bryan from Florida
It’s not the oldest restaurant in the USA, Longfellow’s Wayside in has been in Operations continuously for 290 years. Longfellow’s “Tales of the Wayside Inn” was based on the restaurant. It’s been on the national historic landmark site well before The Union Oyster House. The Oyster House’s claim is a myth.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest restaurant in the world is in Spain, and opened in 1725. So your information about Longfellow’s would make it the oldest in the world, not just the U.S. But since your information contradicts Guinness, I would say that your information is faulty, otherwise it would be recognized as the oldest in the world by Guinness.