Historic Dining Destinations
Historic American restaurants and taverns preserve decades of local dining culture and history.
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Several historic restaurants and taverns offer meals alongside a sense of local history. New Jersey’s Dumont Chrystal Diner, reportedly built around 1928, remains open in Bergen County. California’s Cold Spring Tavern began as a stagecoach relay station in 1868 and still serves food, including its well-known tri-tip sandwiches, in its original rustic setting near Santa Barbara. In Kent, Ohio, Over Easy at the Depot operates inside an 1875 train depot, while Syd’s Fine Food and Spirits in Noblesville, Indiana, has been serving its community since 1889.
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The Dumont Chrystal Diner is at 45 West Madison Avenue and is open daily from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m., except Sundays, when it opens at 7 a.m.
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Cold Spring Tavern’s original buildings are still standing; the article also notes the role of Chinese laborers in the construction and westward expansion era, and says the Ovington family acquired the property in the 1940s.
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Cold Spring Tavern is about 15 miles from downtown Santa Barbara, and its offerings include live blues, country or bluegrass music and family-style picnics.
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Over Easy at the Depot retains its original platform, a surviving feature of the former train depot.
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Syd’s Fine Food and Spirits has a vintage neon “Syd’s Bar” sign and outdoor sidewalk seating near Noblesville’s historic courthouse square.
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