Lhulier Avenue North

Chef Robert Lhulier signs lease for Avenue North restaurant

Pam GeorgeCulture, Headlines

Robert Lhulier is a man of his word. When the chef left Snuff Mill Restaurant, Butchery & Wine Bar in March 2024, he said he was seeking space in north Wilmington for his own restaurant. On July 30, Lhulier signed the lease for an end-cap location at Avenue North, the nearly 80-acre mixed-use redevelopment on the former AstraZeneca campus. If all goes as …

Robert Lhulier The Brandywine Restaurant

Chef Robert Lhulier takes on Brandywine Restaurant

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

The ability of a restaurant to adapt and thrive is an admirable trait in the post-pandemic era. The hospitality industry must navigate labor shortages, high food prices, evolving diner demands, and soaring credit card fees.  In the past, new restaurants had more time to work out the kinks. No longer. For instance, Wilmington-based Tsionas Management, which owns 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue …

The Brandywine Restaurant

Here’s what to expect at the Brandywine Restaurant

Pam GeorgeCulture, Headlines

Nothing gets Wilmington residents quite as excited as a new restaurant—unless it’s a celebrity sighting. I recently experienced both thrills on one evening.  The Brandywine Restaurant at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave.—which many call “the old Michael Christopher’s building”—had an invitation-only preview, and Brent Celek, a former Philadelphia Eagles tight end, was in attendance. I don’t follow sports, so I relied on …

restaurant Bar Reverie

A chef shakeup. A new Brandywine Restaurant. A look at old faves

Pam GeorgeCulture, Headlines

  Manisha Collet-Govinden, the opening chef at Bar Reverie in Greenville, is no longer at the restaurant.   Owner David Dietz had “moved mountains” to bring the family to Delaware. (They previously owned a restaurant in Paris.) But ultimately, it was not a good fit. The new chef, Steve Taplin, started Sept. 17 after working on new dishes at Dietz’s BBC …

Restaurants wrestle with pricing to cover industry cost hikes

Pam GeorgeCulture, Headlines

Bardea Food + Drink is one of the restaurants trying a temporary surchange to help them beat inflation. Photo by Valeria Boltneva/Pexels Since Valentine’s Day was on a Monday, many restaurants had four nights of solid reservations. The business was welcome, considering that most experienced a disastrous January due to mask mandates, bitterly cold weather and ailing staff. But a …