There’s just something alluring about having dinner in a low-ceilinged dining room with peanut shells on the floor and a fireplace and ancient-looking wooden beams holding everything in place and rippled views from the antique glass windows. That this place—Purdy’s Farmer and the Fish in North Salem, N.Y.—has good food, too, is just a bonus.
Photo credit: L. Tripoli
I just love the feeling of sitting in an inn in the corner of a building that is older than this country is, finding the company of neighbors in a popular place that is seemingly never short on business. Built in 1775, this building that is this restaurant is made to last.
I want to eat here, I want to stay here, I want to live here.
Maybe someday my picture will join the sepia-toned scenes of North Salem in years past that adorn its walls. Until then, I’ll enjoy a martini, or a coffee, or a beer, or locally grown corn, or oysters here as often as I can.
—Lori Tripoli
Photo credit: M. Ciavardini
I have 4 male family members that lived in North Salem in the late 1700;s- Joseph Jump was there by 1757, Two sons- Gilbert (my GGG Father) and Bro William came later as well as Amos. All 4 fought in the Battle of Danbury. Joseph was killed in that Battle. I would love to visit this pkace someday. William Jump out in California 12 miles from the Pacific
How wonderful that you know that family history, William! I hope you are able to get to this part of the East Coast–it is a lovely place to visit, and to learn about the American Revolution. –Lori