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AWARDS & HONORS — 21stCENTURY AWARDS 2023 TASTE ATLAS - Top 50 Most Legendary Restaurants in the World 2020 WORLD CULINARY AWARDS - North America Best Landmark Restaurant 2019 OPEN TABLE - Diners' Choice Award 2019 CONDÉ NAST Travelers - The Oldest Restaurants in the World 2018 LONELY PLANET — 500 Best Restaurants in the World 2018 2018 CONDÉ NAST Travelers — Best Restaurants in Boston 2018 2018 USA TODAY — Best Clam Chowder in Boston 2018 2018 FOX & FRIENDS Super Bowl Cook-off — WINNER with clam chowder 2014 CONDÉ NAST Travelers — World's 10 Oldest Restaurants 2014 ACF (American Culinary Federation ) — Achievement of Excellence Award 2013 USA TODAY Readers Choice Awards — 10 Best Seafood Restaurants 2012 FORBES 10 Classic Great Restaurants in the World 2001 NRA (National Restaurant Association) — Restaurant of the Year MEDIA / PRESS 2022 Featured on HBO Max “Julia” Mastering the Art of French Cooking in America 2022 The Kelly Clarkson Show on NBC Universal “Spring Forward USA” 2017 Wheel of Fortune "Great American Cities" Boston's Restaurant 2017 Featured on NBC's Harry: "Harry Connick, Jr. Eats Boston" 2017 Featured on CBS "Super Bowl Cities" for Super Bowl LI 2017 Featured during ESPN's broadcast of the AFC Championship Game 2016 Cooking with Paula Deen "Best Spots with Soups" 2015 Robert Zimmern on Travel Channel “Bizarre Foods: Delicious Destinations” 2015 Chef Robert Irvine of Restaurant: Impossible features The Oyster Bar 2011 Emeril Lagasse featured "Originals" on the Cooking Channel 2010 Food Network Dining with the Stars NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
From the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, June 4, 2003: "On 27 May 2003, we designated the Union Oyster House as a National Historic Landmark. This is a double designation: The Union Oyster House is the oldest continually-operating restaurant and oyster bar in the United States and the oldest standing brick building in Boston's Georgian architecture. To reach this designation has been careful and arduous, through historic records and accounts, through interviews with the owners, brother and sister Joseph A. Milano and Mary Ann Milano-Picardi. The building and restaurant have a remarkable, exciting past. Here was the home of Isaiah Thomas, where he published the Massachusetts Spy from 1771 to 1775. Here, Louis Philippe, later King of France was a guest and taught French to prominent Bostonians. Here was the first use of the toothpick, invented by a Maine family in the timber industry. Famous patrons across the decades have included Senator Daniel Webster, a regular in the 1840s and 1850s, who reportedly drank a tall tumbler of brandy and water with each half dozen oysters. Presidents have dined here: Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and William Clinton, as well as governors, athletes and state and screen visitors to Boston. When in Boston, President Kennedy visited the Oyster House nearly every Sunday at noon and ate lobster stew. Preferring the privacy of the upstairs dining room, he dines at booth number 18, which now has a dedication plaque and Senator Edward Kennedy visited the restaurant about once a month. One president worked at the salad bar in total anonymity for a few months during his sabbatical: Jack Coleman, President of Pennsylvania's Haverford College worked to sample one of this country's rigorous lifestyles. Below is a commissioned painting with video of famous politicians who have visited the restaurant.
Among other famous patrons: Paul Newman, Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Sammy Sosa, Larry Bird, Ted Koppel, Dan Rather, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Wayne Newton, Ozzie Osbourne, and the entire Ryder cup Team in 1999. During his visit, Luciano Pavarotti discovered that the group sitting next to his booth were celebrating a birthday, and the renowned singer gave an impromptu happy birthday. In 2003 a commissioned painting was done for the restaurant by Stan Kotzen, seen below.
The heritage and present significance have no end. The Union Oyster House has the welcome mat out for statesmen, artists, travelers, inventors, sports and theatre figures." To learn more about the history of the Union Oyster house please visit our History page.
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