Chase House

The Chase House restaurant was opened by Nathaniel Chase in the year 1874 and was one of the first shore diners to open on the Salem widdows, later on referred to as restaurant row. Originally the restaurant sat 25 guests, and was a small eatery. The now current location is on pickering wharf where the restaurant has been thriving since the move in 1980, till this very day.

The restaurant menu is from around circa 1930, and is mainly a seafood heavy menu. This menu offers many traditional New England meals like clam chowder and fried clams, and also traditional meals for those who prefer to not eat seafood, like steak or chicken. The prices on this menu are pretty low and affordable, and the descriptions of the menu items are very simple and get right to the point with limited options and substitutions. The Chase House does not offer a kids menu as well.

On the last page of the menu, it has a picture of the North shore area including the Cape Ann region. The picture also comes with a few paragraph description about the original location of the Chase House. This passage describes how the beautiful European white willow trees in the Salem willows gave the park its name, and put in perspective of where Salem is to neighboring Beverly accross the water to the north.