City Tavern and colonial dining for Founding Fathers

City Tavern originally opened in 1773 and was a popular 18th-century tavern where delegates to the Continental Congress, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, are documented to have dined. The original tavern building was demolished in the 19th century; a historically reconstructed City Tavern was built on the site and reopened in 1976 to serve recipes and meals based on colonial-period records. The site is part of Philadelphia's documented food-and-dining history tied to the Revolutionary era.