Durgin-Park

Faneuil Hall entrance (2009)
Restaurant information
Slogan	• Established before you were born • Your Grandfather and perhaps Your Great Grandfather dined with us, too!
Established	1742, 1827
Current owner(s)	• Ark Restaurants (2007—) • Kelley family (1972–2007) • James Hallett (1945–1977) • Chandler family (1840–1945) • Durgin & Park (1827–c.1870)
Food type	Seafood & Roast Prime Rib
Dress code	Casual
Rating	★★★ (Frommer's)
Street address	340 Faneuil Hall Marketplace
City	Boston
State	Massachusetts
Postal/ZIP code	02109
Country	United States
Coordinates	42°21′38″N 71°03′18″W / 42.3605°N 71.0551°W / 42.3605; -71.0551
Seating capacity	250 at mostly communal tables
Reservations	Suggested for parties of 15 or more that want to sit together.
Website	Durgin-Park.com

Coordinates: 42°21′38″N 71°03′18″W / 42.3605°N 71.0551°W / 42.3605; -71.0551

Durgin-Park is a centuries-old restaurant at 340 Faneuil Hall Marketplace in downtown Boston. The Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau states that it has been a "landmark since 1827", and it continues to be a popular tourist destination within Quincy Market. The restaurant has entrances on both of its facades (Faneuil Hall and Clinton Street).

In keeping with its long history, the concept of Durgin-Park maintains the tradition of communal seating at long tables. The menu is designed to offer traditional New England-style fare with a concentration on seafoods, chowders, broiled meats and boiled dinners. The service is also a partial hold-over from the time of its founding as the waitstaff have been encouraged to adopt a "surly" attitude and "backtalk" the clientele. Another sign of its heritage is that it has only changed head chefs a handful of times in its history.

The first restaurant at this former warehouse was opened in 1742, and was purchased in 1827 by John Durgin and Eldridge Park, becoming a Boston landmark.

By 1840, Durgin & Park took on John G. Chandler as a third partner. It was this trio that established the concepts of food and service that have remained essentially unchanged.

During the Reconstruction era—after the deaths of Durgin and Park—Chandler continued to run the operation and his family owned it until 1945, when it was sold to James Hallett, who ran the operation until 1977, enhancing the restaurant's national reputation.