Franklin Arms Tea Room

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Now the Bloomfield Steak
& Seafood House
409 Franklin Street
Bloomfield, New Jersey

After several changes in name & ownership – still a Restaurant!

Hines:
Open all year, every day, except Mondays and Christmas, 11:30am to 7:30pm. This Colonial dining room is closely supervised by Mr. and Mrs. Demmert who will make you glad you came. Their special dishes are steaks and chicken Dixie and they bake their own pies, cakes, and rolls. Lunch 75¢ and up, Dinner 80¢ and up.

Although the Tea Room has long closed, the building still stands and continues to operate as a restaurant: the Bloomfield Steak & Seafood House. This is nothing short of a miracle considering it was built in 1676! Originally called the Joseph Davis House; some vintage postcards had this to say:

The Homestead is 275 years old [note this was said as of 1940s—which would make it about 340 years old today!]. The Charter of Bloomfield was signed in the Pink Room by General Bloomfield in 1796. George Washington dined here but did not sleep here.

As this is pretty local to us and remains a privately run restaurant, we hope to visit soon. We also can't resist the extraordinary historical lineage of the building.