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Older than the Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, and Central Park, Delmonico’s opened in Manhattan’s Financial District in 1837 as the country’s first restaurant, forever transforming the American dining experience as we know it today.  Over the next 181 years, the revered birthplace of American classics such as the Delmonico Steak, Eggs Benedict, Baked Alaska, Chicken a la Keene, and Lobster Newburg went on to define culinary excellence as the originator of countless culinary trends and “firsts,” including being the first U.S. restaurant to introduce farm-to-table cuisine, issue a cookbook, feature a printed á la carte menu, furnish a separate wine list, feature the hamburger steak on a printed menu, and even admit female diners independently.  Delmonico’s has also hosted the likes of Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon III, JFK, Oscar Wilde (and many more!).  Credited as one of the Ten Restaurants That Changed America, Delmonico’s is recognized as the blueprint for today’s $780 billion restaurant industry.  Fast forward nearly two centuries, and Delmonico’s has survived everything from the Great Depression to Hurricane Sandy — enduring today as a celebrated New York City mainstay and living culinary museum that continues to draw people from all over the globe with its classic cuisine and gilded-age ambiance. Delmonico’s Restaurant is located at 56 Beaver Street, New York, NY.