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- America Eats Tavern opens for lunch and dinner on July 4.
- A cupboard at the entrance is filled with cookbooks and artifacts from the National Archives.
- New banquettes, tables and chairs in the ground floor bar area.
- America Eats Tavern's artistic centerpiece, frames of American life cascade through the center of the restaurant.
- The centerpiece was designed by SEED, who also worked on José Andrés' China Poblano in Las Vegas.
- Most of the images come from the National Archives, which is partnering with Andrés on the pop-up.
- The second and third floors have kept the same white-clothed tables and chairs you'll remember from Café Atlantico.
- Working on the menu up until the end.
- The America Eats version of a clambake — clams sitting on a bed of seawood, topped with butter foam.
- José Andrés with his signed early edition of Irma Rombauer's "Joy of Cooking," from which he took some ideas for his menu.