Anybody who complains about Delaware dining hasn't eaten lately at 821 in downtown Wilmington.
Had lunch there yesterday and got the day boat scallops ($16), roasted artichokes and fingerling potatoes with mustard aioli and micro mustard greens.
Wow. Good stuff. I cleaned my plate. Chef/co-owner Nate Garyantes is on his game.
Had lunch there yesterday and got the day boat scallops ($16), roasted artichokes and fingerling potatoes with mustard aioli and micro mustard greens.
Wow. Good stuff. I cleaned my plate. Chef/co-owner Nate Garyantes is on his game.
To the right is a Fred Comegys photo of Nate at last April's Meals from the Masters Celebrity Chefs' Brunch at the Bank of America HQ in Wilmington. Nate made this cool "eggs and bacon" dish of a tiny quail egg, a layer of creamy applewood-smoked bacon custard, a bit of parsley coulis, sprinkles of fresh morel mushrooms and a frothy topping of coffee-infused foam - all served inside a fragile eggshell.
Now, that's creativity. And it was delicious.
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Well, it's come to this: 821 still gets great reviews, Deep Blue is still around, and the Exchange is basking in it's "new restaurant" sales (maybe? I don't see their books). 821 gets the best reviews according to Zagat and other press, and the other's seem to be great too- so why is everybody closing?! How do we save our Wilmington restaurants (besides everything else that's closing down too). I go downtown and it's depressing. All these condos are going up but nobody's around (except people that I don't expect to be dining with).
All I can say is "who's the next to go?" and what needs to be done so that nobody does?
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