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RESTAURANTS
Delaware dining is having a moment. Taste what people are talking about.
What is modern Mid-Atlantic cuisine? It’s a simple recipe: take a few local ingredients — the seafaring culture of the Chesapeake fishermen, the farm-fresh values of
the Pennsylvania Dutch. Mix into that history a new generation of chefs, men and women who have travelled the world and arrived here, embracing tradition but hungry to discover something new.
This is what you get: Hot new restaurants. Award-winning chefs. Locally sourced libations of every color and flavor.
James Beard-nominee Bryan Sikora, formerly of Talula’s Table (once the toughest restaurant reservation in America, according to NPR), has opened his acclaimed La Fia Bakery + Market + Bistro and Cocina Lolo in downtown Wilmington. Dwain Kalup worked at the Michelin-starred Blackbird in Chicago
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before taking over the kitchen at Domaine Hudson. Kate Applebaum brought some Cajun influences from her
seven years as sous chef at Bayona Restaurant in New Orleans to Harry’s Seafood Grille. MacGregor
Mann grew up near Lancaster and cooked in Amada in Philly and Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark before opening Junto in Chadds Ford.
Their food is exciting. Fresh. Local. And just a sample of all there is to enjoy.
But it’s not all fine dining here. No visit to the Brandywine Valley is complete without a Bobbie from Capriotti’s (once voted the “Greatest Sandwich in America”), or a milkshake at the Vice President’s favorite burger shop, the Charcoal Pit. Deerfield Golf
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LA FIA BAKERY + MARKET + BISTRO
An intimate setting with fantastically delicious food and equally inventive cocktails. If you can get a seat, you’ll receive twice as much as you expect.
Club has been named one of OpenTable.com’s top
100 brunches in the United States, but Buckley’s Tavern will give you a discount if you come to brunch in your pajamas. And don’t leave before tasting a crab cake, sampling some scrapple, and finishing your day with an ice cream cone from Woodside Creamery.
And don’t forget your reservations.
Domaine Hudson
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