Prepare to loosen your belt – Wilmington’s City Restaurant Week is coming.
Some of the city’s most creative chefs, from 10 downtown and Riverfront restaurants, will be showcasing two- and three-course culinary consummations during the sixth annual week-long dining event.
From April 26 through May 1, patrons can enjoy a fixed-price menu of two-course lunches for $15 and three-course dinners for $35 at all 10 restaurants.
For those who like to be gastronomically pampered, some restaurants will also feature a Chef’s Table, with a special menu and personalized treatment.
The food-filled week finishes with the $60 Dine Around on May 1, where foodies travel to three different restaurants for appetizer, entree and dessert.
Restaurants fill up fast, so don’t dilly-dally about making reservations. Here are four tables any food-lover should belly up to:
1. Dr. Seuss at the Chelsea Tavern. A newcomer to downtown Wilmington, the Market Street restaurant is offering Green Eggs & Ham as a dinner entrée, though there’s nothing childish about this meal – it features sautéed spinach, cracked egg, truffle cheese and smoked pork belly.
2. Grilled cheese at the Washington Street Alehouse. April is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month (seriously), so celebrate by lunching on a grinder composed of Maine lobster meat, roma tomatoes and fontina cheese stacked on grilled Italian bread.
3. The Green Room puts the “E” in B.L.T. You’ll never look at a brown-bagged bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich again after digging into the B.E.L.T. for lunch – that’s smoked Applewood bacon, an organic egg, bibb lettuce and heirloom tomato on toasted brioche with black pepper mayo.
4. Red meat at Deep Blue. Restaurant week wouldn’t be complete without a little beef, and the grilled hanger steak dinner entrée ought to open your palette and sinuses with its horseradish-veal stock reduction, especially if you started with the duck spring roll, complete with ginger-jalapeno aioli.
Browse menus, find more information and make reservations at cityrestaurantweek.com.
