Hey gang,
I won't be around next week so here's some food news to chew on until I return April 14.
The Thai New Year, known as Songkran, is celebrated every year from April 13 to 15.
"Water wars" are often a part of the festivities. Water ceremonies are a tradition meant as a symbol of luck to bring rain for the spring and summer crops
"We play with water because Thailand is so hot," said Sung Falke, owner of New Castle's Tasti Thai restaurant, which will be holding a Thai New Year celebration on April 13. "I'd like to do it [in Delaware] but it's still cold here."
Falke is planning a special New Year feast - albeit without the water tossing. The banquet will feature many varieties of Thai food including grilled fish and chicken satay, from 12:30 p.m. to about 2 or 3 p.m.
Tickets purchased in advance are $15. At the door, the cost is $17; or $12 for university students with an I.D. and $10 for children 10 and younger. Call 322-1306 for more information.
The Tasti Thai eatery in the Community Plaza Shopping Center, off Del. 273 and Airport Road, celebrates its two-year anniversary this May. It’s open daily for lunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and for dinner from 5 to 9:30 p.m.
NEW DOWNTOWN EATS
Armitage Bistro, a new downtown Wilmington restaurant at 900 Orange St., recently began welcoming customers.
The bistro, which had been the home of the former Brandywine Brewing Co., is owned Michael Hynansky and his partner/general manager Henry Dawson. It includes a market offering sandwiches, salads, DiBruno Brothers cheeses and pastries from Miel Patisserie and Hockessin's Liz Marden.
Executive Chef Sean Holland, formerly Wilmington's Moro and the Farmhouse Restaurant in Avondale, Pa., is creating such menu items as Chilean sea bass over a citrus-fennel-onion salad with black truffle vinaigrette and Parisienne gnocchi with lobster, brie cheese and roasted garlic.
Prices range from $6.50 to $22.The bistro is open for dine-in service from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Saturday. The market serves foods and beverages from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. Call 427-2300 or visit http://www.ameritagebistro.com/.
POP OPEN A BOTTLE AT A NEW CHADDS FORD BISTRO
Bistro on the Brandywine is Wilmington restaurateur Dan Butler's new eatery in Chadds Ford, Pa.
The 70-table "French-leaning" BYOB, housed in a former antiques store off U.S. 1 and Pa. 100, sits next to Butler's Brandywine Prime restaurant.
The restaurant kitchen, headed by Deep Blue alum Seth Harvey, offers stone hearth baked gourmet pizzas and dishes such roasted skate wing, salade Nicoise, moules frites and coq au vin.
Diners can bring their own bottles (corkage fee is $5), though the bistro will have an abbreviated wine and beer list.
Longtime Toscana manager Paul Bouchard is the managing partner of the Bistro and it's on-site "Bistro to Go" coffee shop. It's open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Call (610) 388-8089 or visit http://www.bistroonthebrandywine.com/.
In other news, Brandywine Prime now has new chef, Danny Marcantuno, banging pots and pans. Marcantuno was the former executive sous chef at Philadelphia's Brasserie Perrier.
2 comments:
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