In the last few years the Harvey House was clearly winding down. One of Charles Street’s institutions was taking the slow and dignified route to closing. When owners Lou Baumel and son Barry … ...

Emily Kuckuk, now the general manager at The Harvey House, recalls a highlight from her first dinner at the restaurant. Kuckuk, who worked in Chicago at the time, ordered a dirty martini.

The Harvey House, although new, feels steeped in history already. The restaurant was named after two Harveys: Robbins Papach’s grandfather, and Fred Harvey, a man who started a chain of ...

The Harvey House building next to Union Station reopened to the public this week for the first time since 1967, when the Harvey House restaurant chain (that used to be a mainstay of regional rail ...

Morse shared Harvey’s opinion about railroad food and in 1876 let him open a dining room in the Santa Fe’s Topeka depot, located at 4th and Holliday — the first Harvey House restaurant.

Harvey insisted that each slice of bread at every Harvey House be precisely 3/8-inch thick, that orange juice be hand-squeezed only after it was ordered, that water for coffee have a meticulously ...

The Harvey Co. later extended operations into non-railroad restaurants, and Chicago had Kungsholm Restaurant, Harvey House Restaurant, Harlequin Restaurant and others.

The Harvey House restaurant chain was started by Leavenworth, Kansas entrepreneur Fred Harvey.Harvey left his native England at the age of 15 and found work in New York’s growing restaurant industry ...