Boston's Union Oyster House Wins 2024 'North America's Best Landmark Restaurant' Award

If you want to visit a Boston landmark steeped in tradition with the best seafood in a city known for that cuisine, then visit the Union Oyster House. Nestled in a block of Colonial brick buildings nearby Fanueil Hall in Downtown Boston, the restaurant has long (for nearly two hundred years) been doing what it does best: serving top-notch seafood (and other cuisine). "Yes, it's old-school," writes a review in The Eater. "... It's nostalgic comfort food that sticks to the ribs; it's memories of paper placemats, packets of oyster crackers, complimentary cornbread, and sweating glasses of ice-cold Pepsi."

And while such seafood as oysters, fried clams, scallops, and lobster are part of the restaurant's heritage, its most sought after menu item is the clam chowder. "If you're going to have New England-style clam chowder somewhere, you might as well do it in a restaurant where it's been on the menu since the 1840s," adds The Eater. "Union Oyster House supposedly makes 10,000 gallons of the soup per year, using a classic recipe that starts with a hunk of salt pork and blends chopped clams and clam juice with abundant half-and-half and butter."

And it continues to get accolades. Just this past month the Union Oyster House has been honored by The World Culinary Awards as "North America's Best Landmark Restaurant" for 2024. The World Culinary Awards, a prestigious event alongside The World Travel Awards, celebrates elite dining destinations worldwide.

"I am deeply honored to receive this award on behalf of the Union Oyster House staff and our faithful patrons," says UOH Owner Joe Milano. "We are pleased to have received this award both in 2020 and in 2024 and are grateful to be considered a legend."

Additionally, Union Oyster House is being recognized closer to home. A new Boston.com readers' poll has named Union Oyster House's lobster roll the second-best in New England.

Whether you're visiting for the famed lobster rolls, oysters, chowder, fried clams, or its storied Indian pudding, Union Oyster House is nothing short of legendary. Its bicentennial is only two years away.

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