Chart House Boston: Long Wharf Seafood in Hancock’s Counting House

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Chart House Boston is a seafood and steak restaurant at 60 Long Wharf, in one of the oldest buildings on Boston’s waterfront. It opened there in July 1973 and is open daily from 11 a.m., until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, with a weekday happy hour from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

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This guide uses Chart House’s Boston location and private events pages, its posted menu as of Oct. 19, 2026, and the National Park Service’s history of Long Wharf. It is not based on a visit by The Boston Report.

Hancock’s Counting House

The restaurant occupies the four-story Gardiner Building. Chart House says it was built around 1763 and served as the office of the merchant Thomas Hancock and later his nephew John Hancock, which is why it is often called “Hancock’s Counting House.” The restaurant points to original fixtures including Hancock’s safe, wide wooden beams, floors, the staircase and red-brick walls. The National Park Service’s account of Long Wharf is more cautious, saying the Chart House building “dates from the 1830s with perhaps some colonial sections.” Either way, it is the oldest surviving structure on the wharf.

Long Wharf itself, the Park Service notes, once stretched 1,586 feet into the harbor and was central to colonial Boston’s trade, including the transatlantic slave trade; a marker installed in 2020 at the end of the wharf recognizes that history.

What Is on the Menu

Chart House is part of Landry’s national chain, and the Boston menu mixes seafood, steaks and prime rib. Examples from the posted dinner menu (prices may change):

• Starters: oysters on the half shell by the half dozen ($21), shrimp cocktail ($20), crab cake with brown-butter skillet corn ($24) and kim chee calamari ($22).
• Soups: New England clam chowder ($11 cup, $14 bowl) and lobster bisque ($13 cup, $16 bowl).
• Catch: swordfish ($36), salmon ($30), scrod ($33), halibut ($46) and sea bass ($47), grilled, baked, sautéed or blackened.
• Entrées: macadamia-nut-crusted halibut ($50), lobster-stuffed Boston scrod ($41) and lobster and shrimp carbonara ($41).
• Dessert: the Hot Chocolate Lava Cake, which needs about 30 minutes’ notice.

Events and Practical Details

• Phone: (617) 227-1576.
• Private events: the restaurant hosts business functions, rehearsal dinners and receptions, and offers catering to go for groups of 10 to 100.
• Takeout and delivery are available online and through delivery apps.
• Getting there: the Aquarium stop on the Blue Line is beside Long Wharf, and the restaurant notes easy access from I-93.

For more seafood on the harbor, see our guides to the Barking Crab, Row 34 and the best clam chowder in Boston.

Sources

• Chart House: Boston hours, location and menus
• Chart House: Boston private venues (building history)
• National Park Service: Long Wharf, Boston