Readers | Upstate
Seasons Pizza
various locations, seasonspizza.com
Readers | Downstate
Claws Seafood House
167 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach, 227-2529, 227claw.com
Critics
(TIE)
Brasserie Grille, Courtyard Café
Brasserie Grille, Christiana Hilton, 100 Continental Drive, Newark, 454-1500, brasseriegrille.com
Courtyard Café, Newark-University of Delaware, 400 David Hollowell Drive, Newark, 737-0900, udel.edu/hotel/
It’s impossible for us to choose between chef Mark Chopko’s classics at the Courtyard or chef James Lauser’s at the Brasserie. Both are pure crab. Both are the very essence of the Eastern Shore.