Welcome to the 1790 Restaurant and Tavern.
 Here you will enjoy an unsurpassed dining experience -- a relaxed atmosphere reminiscent of an 18th-century country bistro, graceful and attentive service, and an inspired cuisine combining the best of tradition and contemporary fare.
Our thirty four years of experience promises the highest caliber of food and service for both private dining and special events.
Our welcoming hallmark is that we don't charge a room fee for functions. Together we will customize your affair to match your intent and budget.
 Surrounded by soft candlelight and period antiques, our comfortably elegant dining rooms are the perfect place to spend a romantic evening or mark a special celebration of life's greatest moments, shared by family and friends. We can accommodate groups of up to one hundred and twenty guests. The beautifully landscaped grounds are a perfect backdrop to summer parties.
 In our cozy tavern, enjoy a spur-of-the-moment gathering for drinks, a quick lunch, or a casual supper, where there's no cover for an evening of jazz piano; or watch the Red Sox and Patriots trounce their adversaries. There's WiFi in the tavern if you need to work through lunch.
Our rooms provide an excellent location for civic, business, and corporate meetings. We're fully able to take the latest in technical equipment and support media.
 At the 1790, our menu is brimming with tempting seasonal favorites and our chefs' creative contemporary specials. Our fresh and innovative cuisine takes its cues from traditional New England fare while incorporating the seasonal harvests from our neighboring farms and orchards. We pride ourselves in using local cheeses, fruit, produce and even the root beer we serve is made locally. Fresh native seafood, hearty chowders, prime steaks have been hallmarks of our over 34 years of fine and casual dining that have made us famous. Our wine list like our menu is refined and updated many times a year to reflect today's tastes and ensure the most contemporary of offerings.
 And the desserts! Indescribably delicious.
We offer lunch cards, an adventurous VIP dining club with our talented chefs as guides, champagne dinners, and other delicious and entertaining specials.
Join us often. We are always here to serve you.
You are dining in an area full of early history of the one-hundredth town founded in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Westborough. Incorporated in 1717, the area was once only inhabited by the Nipmuck Indians.
Powder Hill, directly across the highway from the 1790 House, was the center of town, where the first church stood surrounded by a small cluster of houses,
Here too stood the Wesson Tavern. It became the stopping place for stage coaches, giving this area the name of Wessonville. This tavern is where General Lafayette took dinner and drink on his journey to Boston to lay the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument.
This area became the popular stopping point along the Boston-Worcester route. This later became known as Willow Park because of the grove of willow trees planted here.
On the front lawn of the 1790 House is a Connecticut sandstone mile marker. Once commonly thought of as a grave stone marker, history shows that this marker is actually an original mile maker placed here in 1810. This is part of the postal system devised by Benjamin Franklin, as the postal service passed these markers that determined what the postage would be.
Benjamin Franklin was a postmaster general for the colonies at this time. Historical accounts report that Franklin attached an ingenious devise, a mechanical odometer and attached it to a wheel on his wagon. This counted the revolutions of the wheel thus indicated each mile traveled, marking each mile with wooden stakes on Post Road. A second wagon crew followed him, replacing the stakes with the engraved markers, each one inscriber appropriately for its location.
Also in 1810, Route Nine, the first turnpike in the country was built. During the construction, the 1790 House was moved for it was resting on what is now the Boston-Worcester road.
The 1790 House stands in the tradition of that long-vanished tavern, offering rest and refreshment to the traveler, halfway along the route between Boston and Worcester.
Today, the 1790 House has eight working fireplaces and boasts over fifteen rooms. This Federal home is a typical Country Estate characterized by the original high ceilings and the absence of exposed beams.
The 1790 House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States.
We welcome you the 1790 Restaurant and Tavern with the same tradition of offering the rest and refreshment to the traveler passing by.
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