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I have written about the entrepreneur Fred Harvey in numerous columns as I go here and there, searching for places worth visiting. And most places are worth visiting — well, perhaps not an IRS office, ...

BELEN, N.M. (KRQE) – One museum is bringing back a café experience from the 1930s. Wednesday was the opening day of the new café inside the Fred Harvey House Museum in Belen. “It’s like a time capsule ...

Fred Harvey was an 1800s culinary innovator who believed he could serve the finest cuisine in the middle of nowhere, according to Stephen Fried, who wrote about the restaurateur in Appetite for ...

For decades, the former Fred Harvey restaurant at Los Angeles’ Union Station sat vacant, its soaring ceiling and Art Deco, Spanish Colonial Revival, and Southwestern design elements hidden from the ...

“Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West” by Stephen Fried, $27 This last month, when anyone asked me, “What are ...

Hands down, the worst restaurant meal I’ve ever been served was at El Tovar, the resort at the Grand Canyon. I was disappointed, because the El Tovar is, of course, a Fred Harvey resort. Or at least ...

When the first train engine rolled into Union Station in 1939, it was to much fanfare, with parades on Alameda Street and hundreds of diners and travelers celebrating shoulder to shoulder in the new ...