Union Oyster House, Union Street, Government Center, Downtown, Boston, MA, United StatesUnion Oyster House
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The article states the restaurant "originally opened as the Atwood & Bacon Oyster House on October 7, 1826", giving the exact day.[1]The oldest restaurant still operating in the United States opened on 7 October 1826 as the Atwood & Bacon Oyster House, in a Union Street building already old at the time. Its semicircular oyster bar is the original, and Daniel Webster is said to have worked through brandy and oysters at it daily.
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