Chance's Restaurant, 1935, later the site of the Blue Gentian.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 20, 2001 Over the years, Saranac Lake had an amazing assortment of dining and drinking establishments, and during Prohibition, it had "at least a dozen speakeasies, which operated more or less within the knowledge of the police." 1
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, July 22, 1955
- Adirondack Restaurant
- Alpine Tavern
- Altamont Dairy Bar
- Alta Vista Lodge
- American-Italian Garden
- Ampersand Grill
- The Antlers
- Back Door Restaurant and Tavern
- Bailey's Delicatessen
- Belvedere
- Bernie Wilson's Restaurant
- The Birches
- Birk's Swiss Chalet
- Black Cat
- Blue Bird Tea Room
- Blue Gentian
- Brick Oven Restaurant
- Brown Bear Restaurant
- Casablanca
- Cedar Post Restaurant
- Chance's Restaurant
- Coach and Four
- Colby Lake Lodge
- Colonial Inn
- Coogan's Restaurant
- Crescent Moon Restaurant
- Dew Drop Inn
- Dickies (comprising the One Minute Lunch and the City Restaurant)
- DJ's Rustic Restaurant
- Dr. Y's Tavern
- Downing and Cane's
- Durgan's Grill
- Earl's Village Tavern
- Elks Club
- Glade Room
- Hennessey's Bar and Grill
- Hesseltine's
- Hob Nob
- Hotel Saranac
- Journey's End
- Lakeview Grill
- Lamp Post Tavern
- La Petite Restaurant
- Larry's Lunch
- Laura's Diner
- Leaning Pine
- Lone Star Inn
- Mack's Restaurant
- Major's Inn
- Mark's Restaurant Bar and Grill
- McVeety's diner
- Minute Lunch
- Melody Bar and Grill
- Miss Saranac Diner
- Morgans 11
- Mr. Quigley's
- Mt. Baker Club
- New York Restaurant
- Northbrook Lodge
- Overlook
- Pine Grove Restaurant
- The Pines
- Pleasant View Restaurant
- Pontiac Club
- The Porch
- Rainbow Bar and Grill
- Ray Brook Inn
- The Red Mill
- The Ritz
- Riverside Bar and Grill
- Sagendorf Restaurant
- Shamrock Bar and Grill
- Schroeter's Restaurant
- The Silhouette
- The 64 Restaurant
- The Store
- Swinging Tiger
- Tally Ho
- The Tavern
- Top Hat Restaurant
- Town Tavern
- Walseman's Restaurant
- Wayside Tavern
See also 1937 Saranac Lake Veterans of Foreign Wars Encampment Program
Where to Eat, 1948. From a program of the Rebekah Lodge for the 1948 Rebekah Assembly.
Chamber of Commerce, Where to Stay and Dine in Saranac Lake, N.Y. : The little city in the Adirondacks, undated, but between 1948 and the late 1950s.
Courtesy of the Adirondack Experience
Footnotes
1. Mooney, Elizabeth, In the shadow of the White Plague : a memoir, New York : Crowell, 1979, p.90
