{"id":211577,"date":"2026-04-27T19:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211577\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:21:05","slug":"how-americas-first-fine-dining-restaurant-still-shines-nearly-200-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211577\/","title":{"rendered":"How America\u2019s First Fine-Dining Restaurant Still Shines, Nearly 200 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the sixth and final installment of \u201cThe United Tastes of America,\u201d which explores downtown\u2019s diverse global culinary scene, host Marcus Samuelsson heads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoriginaldelmonicos.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delmonico\u2019s<\/a> (56 Beaver St.), the iconic steakhouse that served as the nation\u2019s first restaurant when it opened in 1837. Delmonico\u2019s founders Giovanni and Pietro Delmonico were Swiss-Italian immigrants who intended to open a pastry shop in New York, but were so struck by the new nation\u2019s lack of restaurants that they decided to introduce the concept of fine dining.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samuelsson chats with Carin Sarafian, Delmonico\u2019s\u2019 director of events, to learn more about the restaurant\u2019s historic impact. Watch the video below, and catch the whole series <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownny.com\/news\/united-tastes-of-america\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the sixth and final installment of \u201cThe United Tastes of America,\u201d which explores downtown\u2019s diverse global culinary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,83626],"class_list":["post-211577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-the-united-tastes-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}