Haunted Restaurants

27 haunted restaurants mapped across 20 cities, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Anthony's Fine Dining (Pope-Walton House)Restaurant · Atlanta, GAThe Pope-Walton House began rising in Wilkes County around 1797 and survived the Civil War when Sherman's troops looted but spared it, reportedly because Mary Pope Walton and her infant daughter sheltered inside.
• Aqua Terra BistroRestaurant · Buford, GAAqua Terra Bistro occupies an early-20th-century storefront on Buford's historic Main Street, the old leather-and-rail district that gave the town its "Leather City" nickname, and today serves fine-dining steaks and seafood from the renovated space.
• Big Nose Kate's SaloonRestaurant · Tombstone, AZNow named for Doc Holliday's companion Mary Big Nose Kate Haroney, this Allen Street saloon began as the Grand Hotel, which opened in September 1880 and lodged Tombstone's elite during the silver boom.
• Captain Tony's SaloonRestaurant · Key West, FLBuilt around 1851, this building served as an icehouse and the city morgue, then housed the original Sloppy Joe's Bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented before becoming Captain Tony's Saloon in 1958.
• Chelsea's Corner Cafe & BarRestaurant · Eureka Springs, ARA downtown fixture for decades, Chelsea's Corner Cafe is one of the town's best-known watering holes, with live music most nights of the week and a quirky layout that lets patrons enter from either Spring Street or Mountain Street.
• Chowning's TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAJosiah Chowning opened this alehouse in 1766, and Colonial Williamsburg reconstructed it in 1941 as a working tavern.
• Crystal Palace SaloonRestaurant · Tombstone, AZThe Crystal Palace, whose two-story gaming parlor opened July 22, 1882, on the corner of Fifth and Allen, is one of Tombstone's most authentic and continuously operating saloons, its ornate bar witnessing more than 140 years of drinking, gambling, and gunplay tied to the era of the O.K.
• Dobbin House TavernRestaurant · Gettysburg, PAThe oldest standing structure in Gettysburg, this stone house was built around 1776 by the Reverend Alexander Dobbin as a family home and classical school for boys, later sheltering freedom-seekers in a hidden crawl space on the Underground Railroad and serving as a field hospital for both armies after the 1863 battle.
• King's Arms TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAOpened in 1772 by tavern keeper Jane Vobe, the King's Arms was one of Williamsburg's most genteel colonial taverns and still operates today as a costumed Colonial Williamsburg dining room.
• Little GardensRestaurant · Lawrenceville, GASet on a seven-acre hilltop estate along Lawrenceville Highway in Gwinnett County, the grand white house and ballroom known for years as Little Gardens long served as a private residence before becoming a popular restaurant, lounge, and event venue.
• Mojito's Cuban-American BistroRestaurant · Norcross, GAMojito's Cuban-American Bistro occupies a storefront among the late-19th- and early-20th-century buildings along South Peachtree Street in Norcross's historic downtown.
• Moon River Brewing Co.Restaurant · Savannah, GAThe brick building at 21 West Bay Street was raised in 1821 by Elazer Early as the City Hotel, one of Savannah's grand early lodgings, and counted the naturalist John James Audubon among its long-staying guests.
• Muriel's Jackson SquareRestaurant · New Orleans, LAMuriel's Jackson Square occupies a French Quarter building rebuilt after the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, restored to grandeur by owner Pierre Antoine Lepardi Jourdan as a home for his family.
• O.C. White's Seafood & SpiritsRestaurant · St. Augustine, FLThe coquina-block building at 118 Avenida Menendez was raised in the 1790s and later housed the widow and daughters of General William J. Worth before serving as a hotel, a cigar shop, and finally a riverfront seafood restaurant.
• Patrick Henry's Pub & GrilleRestaurant · Richmond, VAA block from St. John's Church in historic Church Hill, this four-story Greek Revival building dates to around 1850 and has served as a family home, brothel, speakeasy, and private club before becoming a pub often called one of the most haunted bars in America.
• Poogan's PorchRestaurant · Charleston, SCBuilt as a private Victorian home in the late 1880s, the house at 72 Queen Street opened as Poogan's Porch in 1976, named for a neighborhood dog who lingered as its self-appointed greeter until his death in 1979.
• Public HouseRestaurant · Roswell, GABuilt in 1854 as a commissary for the nearby Roswell Mill, the building at 605 Atlanta Street was one of the few Gen. William T. Sherman spared, serving as a Union hospital during the Civil War.
• Restaurant 1796 at The Myrtles PlantationRestaurant · St. Francisville, LARestaurant 1796 sits on the grounds of the Myrtles Plantation, named for the year General David Bradford built the main house, and opened in February 2019 in a new building raised where the former Carriage House Restaurant burned in a 2017 fire.
• Riondo's RistoranteRestaurant · Galveston, TXNow an Italian restaurant in Galveston's historic Strand District, Riondo's fills a building that once stood as a private home, and according to local lore documented by Community Impact and ABC13 it still carries the weight of the catastrophic 1900 Storm.
• Schilo's DelicatessenRestaurant · San Antonio, TXSchilo's, a German-Texan deli founded by 'Papa' Fritz Schilo in 1917 and at its downtown location since 1942, is the oldest operating restaurant in San Antonio, famous for its house-made root beer, split pea soup, and Reuben sandwiches.
• Shields TavernRestaurant · Williamsburg, VAThis Duke of Gloucester Street tavern traces to 1705, when it operated as Marot's Ordinary under Jean (John) Marot, an early Williamsburg tavern keeper; it later became Shields Tavern under James Shields and is now a costumed Colonial Williamsburg dining site.
• Six Pence PubRestaurant · Savannah, GAA British couple, Wally and Doris, opened a snug alehouse on Bull Street that became "Wally's Sixpence," a home away from home for expatriates and locals.
• The Olde Pink HouseRestaurant · Savannah, GABegun in 1771 for James Habersham Jr., this Reynolds Square mansion is one of the few colonial-era structures to survive the great fires that swept Savannah, its brick walls plastered white in the Georgian fashion.
• The Pirates' HouseRestaurant · Savannah, GAThe Pirates' House sits a few blocks east of General Oglethorpe's 1733 landing site in Savannah, on the grounds of the old Trustees' Garden near the wharf.
• Turner's Seafood at Lyceum HallRestaurant · Salem, MAThe brick hall at 43 Church Street rose in 1831 when the Salem Lyceum Society built its lecture stage atop ground that period records describe as the former apple orchard of Bridget Bishop, the first person hanged in the 1692 witch trials.
• Vic's on the RiverRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt in 1859 to a John Norris design, this building on the Savannah River bluff began as a cotton warehouse and shipping office before General Sherman's officers commandeered its rooms during the Civil War, one sketching a battle map of the march onto a plaster wall, now preserved behind glass in the dining room.
• Washington InnRestaurant · Cape May, NJHoused in an 1840 former plantation residence and now one of Cape May's most acclaimed restaurants and wine bars, the Washington Inn is said to be haunted by a young girl the staff named Elizabeth.