Michael Thompson packs food donations for DART’s ‘Stuff the Bus’ campaign DART’s 24th annual ‘Stuff the Bus’ food drive for Thanksgiving will run the second week of November, with seven collecting sites around the state. The drive has a goal of collecting 20 tons of non-perishable food for Delawareans who need help with food. It’s slogan is “With your …
Kaisy’s Delights opens full-service dining room in Lewes
Thierry and Nathalie Langer own the three Kaisy’s Delights locations. (Kaisy’s Delights) It is hard to miss Kaisy’s Delights in Lewes. The building at Savannah and Wescoats roads resembles a mountain chalet. And then there are the colors: Lily Pulitzer pink and lime green. Locals and frequent visitors belly up to the counter for the coffee — La Colombe — …
Brew Works peach cider to raise money for Hagley Recovery Fund
Hagley and Wilmington Brew Works have another cider for sale Friday that was made with two kinds of peaches from Hagley’s orchard. Wilmington Brew Works and Hagley Museum and Library are releasing a new cider Friday, and some of the proceeds will go towards a recovery fund to help the former du Pont estate cope with $2 million in flood …
Delaware First Lady, Food Bank mark 1 millionth free Door Dash delivery
The First Lady of Delaware celebrated the 1 millionth Project DASH delivery Monday at the Food Bank of Delaware’s Newark warehouse. Project DASH is a nationwide non-profit initiative of food delivery service DoorDash. According to the company, the service aims to provide “last-mile delivery and online ordering solutions for government and nonprofit partners, helping hundreds of food …
Tavern on Kings closes before it even got its sign up
Tavern on Kings, which replaced the Governor’s Cafe in downtown Dover, has permanently closed. The restaurant, located at 144 Kings Highway, had been open for less than a month following subtle renovations to the interior and a large expansion of the kitchen. The entrance still brandished the Governor’s Cafe logo during Tavern on Kings’ operation and the restaurant’s …
Newark’s Peach Blossom Eatery expected to open in November
Peach Blossom Eatery will feature a vegan eggplant parmesan sandwich on ciabatta made with cashew-garlic ‘cheese’ and Calabrian chili marinara. At 9 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, Olivia Brinton was busy experimenting. “I just made my first test batch of pistachio-matcha bear claws,” she announced. The Japanese green tea “looks cool,” she acknowledged, but it can taste, well, grassy …
Brandywine Festival of Arts makes sure shoppers are well-fed
Home Grown will offer veggie burgers, kielbasa, cheeseburgers, hotdogs, fries and hummus at the arts festival. For more than 50 years, artists and collectors have celebrated autumn’s arrival at a Wilmington festival along the Brandywine River. This year is no different. Always the first weekend after Labor Day, The Brandywine Festival of the Arts is scheduled for Sept. 11, …
Wilmington’s Bardea to be featured Monday on Today Show
Bardea’s chef Antimo DiMeo and co-owner Scott Stein Wilmington’s popular Bardea restaurant will be featured in a live segment Monday, Aug. 16, on “The Today Show.” The segment, which will follow chef Antimo DiMeo preparing two dishes in a “Make Ahead Monday” cooking segment, will run about 9:15 a.m. during the NBC morning show’s third hour. Scott Stein, co-owner of …
Win-win: Hottest trend at Delaware liquor stores is local craft brews
The craft beer selection at Peco’s Liquor Store in Wilmington. Photo by Ed Mulvihill, owner Twenty years ago, if you were drinking a beer in Delaware, it was likely one of the classics: Budweiser, Miller or Coors. That’s not necessarily the case anymore. Today, it’s likely to be a local craft beer from one of Delaware’s 32 breweries, and that …
August wasn’t always great for peach picking in Delaware
Peach picking is one of many activities that Fifer Orchards offers on its farm. Delaware is known for two things this time of year: beaches and peaches. It’s prime peach-picking time, but before you head out to the orchards there are some things you should know about Delaware’s peach industry. Delaware’s peach industry began in the 1820s with a Delaware …