- Willard InterContinental: Chat up the bar manager, Jim Hewes, for inside tips on all former presidents and their favorite drinks, and enjoy the Mint Juleps that Henry Clay brought to DC. Peek in the hotel’s history gallery to see Lincoln’s bill (he stayed at the Willard before his inauguration).
- Greensboro lunch counter: While you can’t eat there today, the lunch counter made famous by civil rights era sit-ins is part of the collection on display at the National Museum of American History.
- Bourbon: Sample an abundant collection of the spirits enjoyed by soldiers during the war at this DC bar with two locations—north of Georgetown and in Adams Morgan.
- National Archives: You can research historic recipes in the Archives’ vast holdings (and located on former site of DC’s Central Market).
- Old Ebbitt Grill: Although the exact location and décor of this classic eatery have changed over time, the Old Ebbitt is DC’s oldest restaurant, opened in 1856.
- Busboys & Poets: This bookstore-meets-coffee shop, with two downtown locations and others in the suburbs, takes its name from a Langston Hughes poem.
- Library of Congress: You’ll find plenty of historic cookbooks in the Library’s extensive collections.
- Decatur House: The Lafayette Square residence’s slave quarters have been restored to show how slaves during the war era lived, worked—and cooked.
- Wok and Roll: You’d never guess from the outside that this Chinatown eatery is housed in Mary Surratt’s boarding house.
- Ben’s Chili Bowl: A local institution, Ben’s weathered the riots of the 1960s and the tumultuous 1970s and remains a must-try for locals and visitors.
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