How America's oldest restaurants endure through the decades - Washington Post
Tom Sietsema traveled from coast to coast to find the secret sauce behind six of the most enduring restaurants in the country. Fresh seafood and service in the Bay Area California, 1849 A venerable saloon with history on the half shell D.C., 1856 Southern hospitality on and off the menu Louisiana, 1905 A steakhouse defined by a roll of the dice Oklahoma, 1910 Chow mein in a onetime Rockies boomtown Montana, 1911 The possible birthplace of the chimichanga Arizona, 1922 Tom Sietsema traveled from coast to coast to find the secret sauce behind six of the most enduring restaurants in the country. Fresh seafood and service in the Bay Area 1849 A venerable saloon with history on the half shell 1856 Southern hospitality on and off the menu 1905 A steakhouse defined by a roll of the dice 1910 Chow mein in a onetime Rockies boomtown 1911 The possible birthplace of the chimichanga 1922 America tends to fixate on youth — the fashionable, the future. “What’s new?” people ask one another. There are