@Harters - there’s a mention of Rules in this review. This restaurant chain is older!
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Thanks. Yeah, I’d spotted that in yesterday’s Guardian.
Maybe we should start an “old restaurant” thread. I remember being in one place in Virginia which, assuming my memory hasnt failed, had been in the food business since before American independence.
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In Alexandria?
Done!
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No. but found it though.
Mitchie Tavern, outside Charlottesville. Dates to 1784. We had lunch there after visiting Monticello (President Jefferson’s home). Trip was years back - before I started writing reviews in 2008 - so I’ve no real recollection of what we ate. I do recall it was a buffet of traditional Southern dishes (as it still is).
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Oh sure! We lived in Charlottesville for a couple years in the early aughts when LLD was teaching at UVa. We never ate there but it was definitely a presence. Monticello is beautiful.
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After reading your first post about an older restaurant in Virginia I went to Wikipedia and found another old one founded in 1728 in Middleburg Virginia. And the odd thing is that I had lunch there and had no idea it was in the top 10 oldest restaurants in the USA.
The Red Fox Inn is kind of a nice horse country restaurant with good not great menu. Middleburg was a nice small town that back in the day you could almost believe was a slice of England. It is super busy and packed with tourists now.
I used to go through there fairly frequently in my ‘go fast car’ because there were a lot of roads with great curves, beautiful vistas and no bicyclists just beyond Middleburg. Most are gettin filled with commuter communities now.
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Thanks @ZivBnd - we’ve now got a new thread discussing old restaurants - I’ll try and link your post there.
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@Harters - Grace was in your part of the country! Sounds like a place you might have already been to or would be interested in trying?
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Yeah, read the review in yesterday’s paper. Winsome has been on our “to try” list for a while. But with a big question mark against it - I do have a sharp intake of breath at the idea of paying £45 for rabbit pie (plus sides). The phrase “taking the piss” comes to mind.
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Yikes! £45! And what if it was just a rabbit casserole with a pastry lid? You’d be so disappointed!
Not least as our local dining pub often has a game pie on the menu. Proper pie - pastry top, bottom and side - with sides for about nineteen quid.
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