Review:

What did they eat in hotels in the 18th century? What did they do for fun? You can get a pretty good idea about life during this time on a tour of Michie Tavern.

This magnificently restored 200-year-old tavern is located not more than half a mile from Jefferson’s Monticello. Visitors can tour the tavern’s oldest parts and learn about how 18th century travelers lived, what they ate, and how they entertained themselves. During lunch hour, staff members dressed in period costumes serve typical Colonial Midday Fare in the restaurant’s rustic setting, offering an 18th-century southern meal of fried chicken, hickory-smoked pork barbecue, marinated baked chicken, stewed tomatoes, buttermilk biscuits, and much more.

There are four stores attached to the Tavern that you should visit, one of which is a General Store located in the 1797 Meadow Run Grist Mill.

Michie Tavern , 683 Thomas Jefferson Parkway, Charlottesville, Virginia, 434-977-1234

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