Restaurant Reviews
June 23, 2008
Delicious roasted duck is served with cranberry compote and sweet potato purée.Photograph by Thom Thompson www.thomthompson.com The Exchange on Market 905 Market St., Wilmington 576-9861 www.eatdowntown.net Prices Appetizers $7-$10Sandwiches and light entrées $9-$15 Entrées $16-$21 Recommended dishes Chopped antipasto, fish and chips, roasted duck Don’t you wish you had a dollar […] Restaurant Reviews
June 23, 2008
Duck tamarind is served with tamarind garlic pepper sauce. Photographs by Thom Thompsonwww.thomthompson.com Today you can find restaurants that feature just about every distinct culinary culture, from Latin American to east Asian—with plenty of Indian in between—without leaving Delaware. Indeed, you wouldn’t even have to leave Elsmere. It’s practically a little United Nations, with every […] Restaurant Reviews
June 23, 2008
The Executive 556 S. Dupont Blvd. Milford 422-7530 www.executiverestaurant.net Prices Appetizers $6-$12Light entrées $8-$10Entrées $16-$29 Recommended dishes: Cream of crab soup, Executive salad, crab cakes, anything from the wine list The grilled mako is served with fingerling potatoes and vegetables. Photograph by Keith Mosherwww.kamproductions.com Shakespeare had it all wrong. A rose by any name might […] Restaurant Reviews
June 23, 2008
Amici’s Fine Dining & Spirits1213 New London Road Landenberg, Pa. (610) 255-5777 Prices Entrées $16 to $30; appetizers and salads $6 to $14; desserts $4 to $8 Recommended dishes Lobster ravioli with tomato confit and basil-almond pesto, sautéed mussels, Spanish crab cakes with avocado salsa and cilantro-lime créme fraiche, prosciutto-wrapped pork tenderloin withsaffron-walnut risotto, herb-crusted […] Uncategorized
June 23, 2008
Grilled Mediterranean grouper is served with a tomato-zuccini purée and sautéed baby eggplant.Photographs by Thom Thompson www.thomthompson.com There are many things I miss about the ’90s. The Italian restaurant boom is not among them. By the middle of the decade, more than half the new restaurants in Wilmington and its environs, even the national chains, […] Uncategorized
June 23, 2008
Royal Zephyr 27 Atlantic Ave.Ocean View541-9555www.royalzephyr.com Prices Entrées $21 to $35; appetizers and salads $9 to $12 Recommended dishesThe house salad, crab balls, fried oysters, cornmeal-crusted rockfish The cornmeal-crusted rockfish is served with roasted red onion relish and tartar sauce spiked with green chili peppers.photograph […] Uncategorized
June 23, 2008
Catch 54 Fish HouseLighthouse RoadFenwick Island436-8600 Prices Entrées $18.95 to $29.95; appetizers and salads $4.95 to $11.95; desserts $5.95 Recommended dishes Crab cakes, Waldorf salad, lobster pasta, seafood stew Flash-fried soft-shell crabs are served atop a snow pea-and-sweet corn saladall Catch 54 photographs by Thom Thompsonhttp://www.thomthompson.com Dinnertime at Delaware’s beaches can lead to some tough […] Uncategorized
June 23, 2008
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June 23, 2008
            The short rib is braised in a tomato and roasted garlic jus and served with a horseradish pea risotto. Photography by Thom Thompson http://www.thomthompson.com   When slot machine parlors opened at the state’s horse racing tracks in 1995, nobody knew what to […] Uncategorized
June 23, 2008
Brandywine Prime Seafood & ChopsRoutes 1 and 100, Chadds Ford, Pa.(610) 388-8088 Entrée prices $18 (pappardelle) to $32 (8-ounce filet mignon) Best bets: Braised lamb shank, raw oysters, beef tartare, dry-aged beef    Photographs all by Thom Thompsonhttp://www.thomthompson.com  When General George Washington’s fledgling American army faced the British at the Battle of the […]
