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Specialties:	Kid Friendly, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner, Family Style
Cost:	$$
Category:	American Restaurants

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This restaurant, a Boston landmark for over 100 years has closed.

Durgin Park was opened over 100 years ago - a Boston restaurant famous for its chowders, Indian puddings, apple pan dowdy, johnny cake, and New England boiled dinners.

This historic Boston restaurant is notorious for its 'sharp tongued' waitstaff (designed for your humor and entertainment).

Sample Menu Items

Appetizers: Onion Rings, Shrimp Scampi, Oysters & Clams (steamed or raw).

Soups & Chowders: Fish Chowder, Clam Chowder.

Salads: Garden Salad, Caesar Salad (with grilled chicken or grilled shrimp).

Lunch Specials: Yankee Pot Roast, Poor Man's Roast Beef, Homemade Fishcakes, Chicken Livers (in wine & bacon), Chicken Pot Pie, Beef Stew*, Short Ribs of Beef with Creole sauce, Frankfurts, Knockwurst, Potted Beef with onions, Boston Schrod.

Sandwiches: Fish, Corned Beef, Roast Beef, Ham, Turkey
With: Swiss, pepper jack, or American cheese and daily bread.

Poultry: Roast Stuffed Turkey, Roasted Native Chicken Boneless Chicken Breast Platter.

Beef: Roast Prime Rib of Beef, Durgin Cut, Yankee Cut, Porter house Steak, T-Bone Steak, Broiled Sirloin Steak, New England Corned Beef and Cabbage, Yankee Pot Roast, Broiled Hamburg Steak, Traditional Hamburger & Cheesburger, Franks (grilled or steamed).

Lamb & Pork: Pork Chops, Roast Loin of Pork (with applesauce), Broiled Lamb Steak or Chops, Kidney,Mixed Grill (lamb kidney, lamb chop, pork chop, tenderloin tips).

Seafood: Boston Schrod, Haddock, Salmon, Sole, Fried Fish and Chips, Fried Shrimp, Broiled Salmon, Filet of Sole, Haddock, Fried Shrimp or Clams or Oysters, Sea Scallops, Seafood Platter, Swordfish, Lobster Sauté, Fried Lobster, Lobster/Shrimp Newburg.

Vegetarian: Bale of Hay, Four vegetables and potato.

Pasta: Chicken and Broccoli Over Pasta, Shrimp Scampi Over Pasta, Seafood Combination Over Pasta, Pasta Primavera, Pasta Marinara.

Desserts: Boston Cream Pie, Coffee Jell-O, Homestyle Apple Pie, Hot Fudge Sundaes, Indian Pudding,Homestyle Apple Pan Dowdy, Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt, Fresh Homestyle Strawberry Shortcake (fresh strawberries and fresh whipped cream).

WEBSITE

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www.durgin-park.com

LOCATION

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340 North Market St., Boston, MA, 02109 map
Phone: (617) 227-2038

TIPS

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Often filled with tourists with a long wait on weekends & holidays
Famous for it's Boston Baked Beans
Reservations available for 15 or more
Validated parking at Faneuil Hall garages (e.g., 75 State Street Garage)
Close T-Stops: Haymarket (Orange/Green) or Government Center (Green)

REVIEWS

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A visit remembered for 15 years

Don't know whene we will be in Boston again. Dr Robert B. Gottschalk took us there in 1994. There Prime Rib of Beef is remarkable. They will be our first stop for a great meal everytime we return. Leard Huggins Savannah, GA. USA