The Story Of… Martin’s Tavern in Washington DC

By Karen Beishuizen
Photos courtesy of Martin’s Tavern

The Restaurant’s website says it best: For almost nine decades, visiting guests, future presidents, senators, staffers, and stars have all called Martin’s Tavern their home away from home. It’s where JFK proposed to Jackie, where former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once told Billy Martin over dinner that she thinks of Martin’s as an extension of her living room, and where baseball greats including Mickey Mantle...