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