Restaurants, taverns, bars, pubs, and café’s…these places are part of our community. When America was being settled the first building most towns would put up was a tavern; before schoolhouses, courtrooms, jails, or even a town hall, there would be a tavern. Whatever you want to call it, the house that serves fair-priced food and libations to locals and travelers alike is as American as George Washington, and celebrating momentous events with revelry is practically baked into our DNA. Proof? 2 days before the Constitution was signed, on the night of September 15, 1787, at City Tavern in Philadelphia, George and 54 of his pals threw a party and drank “54 bottles of Madeira wine, 60 bottles of Bordeaux wine, 8 bottles of old stock whiskey, 22 bottles of porter ale, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 jugs of beer, and 7 large bowls of punch”…plus dinner, fruit, olives and relish, because even back then they knew when you’re going hard you gotta eat.