Iron Gate

Our restaurant offers multiple menu options nightly in our Dining Room as well as our Outdoor Patio and Garden. The seating for reservations are first come first serve for each location, please specify if you have a preference. Guests can choose from either an a la carte menu that has varying small plates and family style platters, a 5-course Tasting menu ($90 per person, additional $60 with...

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The iconic Iron Gate Inn may have clanked its iron gates shut some years ago, but an enterprising restaurant group and chef have opened it up for business again. Picturesque in an old-world sort of way with its vine-covered outdoors courtyard and elegant Italianate interiors, Iron Gate is emerging as a go-to dining destination just as much for ambience as for its menus. These are skillfully...

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In November 2013, the historic Iron Gate re-opened under the direction of Executive Chef Anthony Chittum. Until its recent... closing, the Iron Gate was the District’s oldest continuously operating restaurant. Its kitchen and dining room occupy a building that once served as the stables for the townhouse’s owner, General Nelson Miles, a cavalry officer in the Civil War who later became the...