The Temperance House
Andrew McMinn opened this tavern in 1772, and it spent the 1840s pouring nothing alcoholic, which is how it landed the name; the bar now runs 33 taps. The scratch kitchen leans Latin and European under colonial fireplaces where folk painter Edward Hicks once turned up.
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