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The article's infobox gives the year only - established 1856 - so the pin sits on that year's last day. The restaurant has moved premises since.[1]- Start
- Dec 31, 185675% CONFIDENCEen.wikipedia.org
Old Ebbitt Grill Opens in Washington
Washington's oldest saloon dates itself to 1856 and has moved premises more than once, ending up a block from the White House. Its oyster bar and dark wood booths have fed enough administrations that the taxidermy over the bar is said to have been shot by Theodore Roosevelt.
- Old Ebbitt Grill dates itself to 1856, when innkeeper William E. Ebbitt bought a hotel-boarding house near the corner of F and 14th Streets NW; the restaurant's own page says the exact original site is unknown and probably on the edge of today's Chinatown.[1][4]
- The Ebbitt House Hotel was the first in Washington to stay open all summer instead of closing when Congress adjourned.[1]
- After the old hotel was demolished for the National Press Building, the restaurant was incorporated in 1926 at 1427 F Street NW, and in 1983 it moved to 675 15th Street NW, the former B. F. Keith's Theater building a block from the White House.[1][4]
- In 1970 Stuart Davidson and John Laytham of Clyde's of Georgetown bought it at auction for $11,200; Clyde's Restaurant Group passed to Graham Holdings in 2019.[1][4]
- Presidents Grant, Andrew Johnson, Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Harding are said to have drunk there, and McKinley reportedly lived at the hotel while in Congress.[4]
- The mounted game trophies are rumoured to have been shot by Theodore Roosevelt, and there are four bars: the Old Bar, Oyster Bar, Grant's Bar (for Ulysses S. Grant) and Corner Bar.[1]
- Scale is large: up to 2,000 guests a day with a 300-person staff, and in 2014 it ranked third nationally in restaurant revenue at $26.7 million, serving about 600,000 meals a year; the oyster bar hosts an annual International Wines for Oysters competition.[1][4]