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For well over a century, Durgin-Park has catered to the hearty appetites of straw-hatted, white-aproned, market men and local characters. Take part in Boston history as you step into one of the oldest continuously running establishments in the country.
Choose from a wide selection of comfort food and classic New England fare such as the Clam Chowder or the signature Prime Rib Steak.
Visit the Hideout, a beer garden at Faneuil Hall, for a beer with your pals or the main dining room for a hearty meal with the family.
At Durgin-Park, we serve history.
Our Food
· All our steaks, chops, and hamburgers are charcoal broiled on our open grill in the dining room.
· All our seafood is received fresh daily.
· We use only fresh lobster at all times.
· All our fried foods are cooked in pure vegetable shortening. 100% cholesterol free.
· We use only Prime and Choice Beef.
· Daily, we grind our own sirloin for hamburgers and ground sirloin steaks.
· Our Boston Baked Beans are baked the old-fashioned way in stone crocks in our own bakeshop on the premises.
· Our desserts and corn bread are baked fresh in our own bakery on the premises.
· We use only fresh strawberries on our strawberry shortcake and strawberry sundaes.
Durgin-Park is owned and operated by ARK Restaurant Corp, a New York based restaurant group.
MAIN DINING ROOM: 11:30AM – 9PM MON-SUN
GASLIGHT PUB: Food ‘till 9pm/Bar
The Hideout, a Beer Garden at Faneuil Hall ‘till 9pm
The origin of Durgin-Park and its typically Yankee recipes goes back to the pre- revolutionary days. In 1742 Peter Faneuil the topmost merchant in town, erected a large market house near the waterfront. Soon afterwards, a warehouse was built which housed a small dining room that catered to market men, and the crews of ships anchored in Boston Harbor.
Around 180 years ago, one of the customers, Eldridge Park bought the restaurant with local merchants, John Durgin and John Chandler. Although both Mr. Durgin and Mr. Park died with in a few years of purchasing the restaurant, their partner retained their memory by naming it Durgin-Park.
Mr. Chandler spent the next 63 years running Durgin-Park with his son and grandson, Jerry Chandler. When Jerry was killed in WWII, the restaurant was sold to James Hallett who put the poem Just a Boy on the back of the menu to honor Jerry and all the fallen soldiers of that war. It remains there to this day.
James Hallett and his infamous staff of playfully short-tempered waitresses served the freshest fish, meats and produce one could find in Boston, not to mention the famous Boston Baked Beans. In 1976, he sold Durgin-Park to the Kelley/Solimondo family who toned down the waitresses to sassy, but continued the tradition of nothing but the freshest Yankee Fare that could be found in Boston. Recently, it was sold to Ark Restaurant Corporation, who wouldn’t change a thing.
