What’s the best restaurant in Delaware?
I’m an absolute sucker for click bait like this.
DELAWARE: Moro
Location: Wilmington
Chef: Michael DiBianca
Chef DiBianca believes in serving “just good food” at Moro, where he aims to give classic dishes a modern spin. DiBianca cooks up offerings such as veal-ricotta meatballs and lump crab mac & cheese, and maintains a ‘come as you are’ atmosphere.
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Domaine Hudson. A great special occasion restaurant:
http://www.domainehudson.com/
If you’re a wine lover, you owe it to yourself. Lotsa wines by the glass, and flights as well. Great food to match.
The service is the best I’ve experienced in Delaware.
Hari Cameron, the chef/owner of a(MUSE.) Rehoboth Beach is a semifinalist for the Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic region.
Of course “best” anything is subjective.
La Fia is my favorite!
Back Porch Rehoboth Ave..
Sunday brunch at Confuscus for dim sum is nice this time of year. Wilmington Ave Rehoboth
There’s nowhere I’d rather go than Flavor of India in Dover. Hole in the wall, but food is fantastic. I can make American food that taste restaurant quality, but I can’t match their flavors.
Pandora, that La Fia menu has me salivating. Do they serve wine there? If so, I’m SO there!
Yeah, I was impressed with a(MUSE). Great sweetbreads. Crispy and spicy.
So many good and different restaurants in Rehoboth. It’s hard to finger one as the best.
I haven’t been to Wilmo in years, so I can’t make a call on that one, but Winkler’s used to be my favorite.
Another vote for La Fia, pretty divine.
La Fia is the best restaurant in Wilmington, hands down and no argument. I did see the chef at (A)muse was nominated for a James Beard Award yesterday. I’ve never been but that nomination is quite a honor.
Yes, El Som, they have a pretty great wine list. Cassandra and I have sampled it – often! I like La Fia because of it’s great food (and wine! Plus an amazing bar.) and intimate setting. Make reservations – it’s quite small with a great city vibe.
I’m really, really glad to have no opinion on this.
Yeah, Gez, dining at a fine restaurant is dumb. Let me guess, you also hate contemporary art and long books with small print…
Dorian, there have been some misguided statements on this blog. Yours is near the top.
Although…you may be the only person on this blog who doesn’t know Geezer’s experience. He knows fine dining, and is one of the most voracious readers I’ve met.
Just trust me on this. His statement was suffused with irony. I’ll leave it at that.
….and flossing, and coat checks…..
Oh please keep your choices coming….Living mid-state, I’ve resigned myself to just going to Chesapeake City or into Philly. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Hotel duPont, but sorry to say they have disappointed the last few times, so haven’t risked taking guests there again the last 18 mos. to 2 years.
La Fia. Never heard of it, and if I did wouldn’t risk it it without a ringing endorsement. Hubs will only eat out nice if it’s not another place serving a Costco chicken breast with “their sauce”. La Fia sounds like it will hit the mark. Thanks!
My comment was a joke.
@DG: I have cheaters to help with the small print, and I like some modern art but not all. But I used up all my enthusiasm for dining out many years ago. I’m glad people do it, because I have several relatives in the business, but no restaurant, not even a Michelin three-star, beats a good home-cooked meal.
LOL! I refuse to eat at Italian restaurants, because I can make it better! 😉
is one of the most voracious
readerseaters I’ve met?Ya know what really bothers me? Going into a dark restaurant without my cheaters and there’s small print on the menu I can’t see
Touch of Italy Lewes/Rehoboth is hard to beat for Itallian
And yet, mouse, I can beat it!
Well ElSom, you know me to be as clueless to Geezer as DG. So whether you have the “Secret Diner” or Art Buchwald Jr. commenting, you can expect responses to match whatever personna they’ve emoted.
DG had fun with Geezer. Me too. Geezer answered as open to interpretation. I’ll eat anywhere if I’m not cooking, my husband prefers home or ponies up to skip the above mentioned Costco chicken breast.
You have the benefit of knowing identities, so can sit back and have a discreet chuckle. I sure hope you would write in my defense of a comment involving more than a fine dining choice, considering I don’t even have the benefit of being a “Geezer”.
Oh heck….just meet me at Jack Lundy’s to clear……..no, wait….:)
OMG, Joanne! The Jack Lundy’s on Miller Road – next to where the Gaylord’s was? I loved that place! Yes, I am old.
Moro is the best! Can’t beat the food or the service, and the wine list! Always interesting dishes with the freshes ingredience
@Joanne: I used to review restaurants for a living.
If you remember Winkler’s, then you are old. I think I recall they had live music with a dance floor like in a 1940’s movie
Moro is good. La Fia is ok, though I’ve been underwhelmed the last few times. Krazy Kats, obviously good.
IMO, House of William and Merry is the best place in the northern part of the state to eat. That restaurant is as good and inventive as any place you’ll find in any major city in the U.S.
@Geezer. Thank you. Don’t know if you reviewed local Delaware in your past, but I only seem to recall the same ol’ haunts of Piane’s, Picciotti’s, Hotel, the Clubs, Walt’s, Columbus Inn, etc…Nothing seemed to change until the Silk Purse showed up.
The late 80s- 90s on has just been a turn-style and I don’t know any of them……
I “know” this isn’t a restaraunt in your eyes—but IF you were around….”The Cave” was an ABSOLUTE birthday treat to eat dinner for us kids. Oh, I can still smile today about that place. Otherwise, dinner out was adults only at nice places….but Mom always brought me the doggie bag 🙂 ! Believe it or not….Red Barn was a favorite for the lobster. That’s Red Barn folks. Not Red Lobster 🙂 !
Discussions of trends in Delaware usually centers on whether Delaware is five years, ten years or fifteen years behind the rest of the East Coast.
There’s a 50 year difference between eastern and western Sussex County lol
@ mouse.. And yet Bon Appetit has thrived in Seaford for years.
Any restaurant Hari Cameron has worked has been my favorite. He was at Nage at its peak and then moved to Abbots Grill in Milford and was doing pretty state of the moment cuisine there. At a(MUSE) the food and technique are pretty spot on to the food trends, but often the service is lacking.
Joanne… I remember my parents going to the Red Barn for date night while I got a babysitter. Never went in the place myself, and it eventually burned down. A Best Buy now sits where the Red Barn stood off Kirkwood Highway.
Right across the street was the Chuck Wagon, the one designed to look like a old-school covered wagon, which actually was a half decent restaurant inside. My parents would take me there and start dinner with Manhattans and talked the waitress into bringing me a few non-alcohol soaked maraschio cherries. There is an Applebees there now, fulfilling much the same function.
I remember the Chuck Wagon quite well. I used to go monthly to attend the local Kiwanis Club meetings while I was in high school. I remember the food as more of the diner style, though. But that was when Alyson’s and the Ivystone were some of the go to places in greater Wilmo. Columbus Inn, The Green Room, and Constintino’s were the best I can remember from that era.
But I do agree with Geezer. Delaware always seems to be years behind as far as food trends go.