The Garden at City Tavern reimagines one of the country's original gathering spots

The Garden at City Tavern is open for the summer with a beautiful park-like setting featuring lite bites, canned cocktails, mocktails and visits with some of history's most memorable characters.

City Tavern was originally built in 1773. It burned down in the 1800s and then was rebuilt for the bicentennial in 1976. It operated as a restaurant until the pandemic shuttered the space and the building fell into disrepair. For America 250, Historic Philadelphia, Inc. in partnership with the Independence National Historical Park reinvented the garden behind City Tavern into a welcoming new destination for food and drink.

The drink menu includes a mix of canned cocktails, mocktails and local beers. The food is lite bites from Cescaphe, with items like a charcuterie board for sharing, a vegan wrap or a turkey sandwich among others. And the atmosphere is accentuated by "colonial" games like cornhole.

While visiting the garden guests will encounter History Makers, historic interpreters portraying real people from the past. It's all part of a modern reimagining of a historic space.

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South 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106