Explore Wilmington’s vibrant food scene with iconic spots like Charcoal Pit, Snuff Mill, La Pizzeria Metro, and more, offering diverse tastes from vegan to French cuisine.
Charcoal Pit
Since 1956, this iconic burger shack in Wilmington has been exciting for local inhabitants and travellers alike. A favourite of our existing U.S. President, Charcoal Pit has one of the juiciest burgers in the area — a juicy bison burger that’s helped on a potato roll.
Snuff Mill
This steakhouse is in an astonishing position: A strip mall with a huge Freedom Hall replica. Snuff Mill is charming, a destination on its cheers to its dry-ageing prowess and on-site killing—superb cuts derived from theatres on classic menu items, like truffles cream corn and beef core butter. For drinkers and avoiders alike, the beverage menu proposes plenty of picks, from a zero-proof ruby mojito to fine French wine.
La Pizzeria Metro
This family-friendly pizzeria, after Michael Tumuli and his son Daniel, hangs wood-fired Neapolitan-inspired pies heated to charred, scorched perfection in a centrepiece Forza Forni kiln. Situated a minute north of the centre, and suitably located next door to work, La Pizzeria Metro also brands stromboli, calzones, pasta, nachos, and for pudding, mores pizza with Nutella.
Go, Vegan Philly
This unplanned vegan restaurant is ongoing as a pop-up in Philly before finding its home in Wilmington’s Slight Italy neighbourhood. Call Go Vegan Philly for tempting battered and cooked oyster burgeons, done in the panache of cooked chicken and helped with two edges and cornbread. Shampoo it down with fresh-pressed fluid for a colourful dinnertime.
The Chancery Market
Next in the footsteps of Wilmington’s general De.co food gallery at the Hotel Dupont, the Chancery Market opened a few blocks away. It offers a varied lineup of vendors from nearby and far. Try Wilmington’s private Juice Joint 2.0 by Lanice Wilson, Dan Butler’s Toscana (pizza and panini), Nikita Thomas’s fast-casual vegan shop, Rooted AF, and Kati Roll Wala, which aids Indian street nourishment both here.
Le Cavalier
The important restaurant got a glow-up a few years back once chef Tyler Akin stirred from Philly to Wilmington to reopen the picturesque, high-ceiled planetary as a French brasserie. Nowadays Le Cavalier is the home in town for stylish omelettes at brunch, burnt salmon trainee at lunch, and steak frites at dinner. The beautiful bar at Le Cav is worth a call on its own.
Wilma’s
Wilma proposes four lanes of duckpin careening, which is similar to regular tenpin bowling with fewer pins and balls. Secretly a spectacular former centre bank building, this fun spot attends a New Orleans-inspired tariff with gumbo, alligator sliders, po’boys, and bloodshot beans and rice. An extensive bar suggests a serious concoction menu, plus frozen tempests in souvenir glasses, just like on Bourbon Street.
Bardea Food & Beverage and Bardea Steak
Bardea and her chef, Antimo DiMeo, have both been a semifinalist for a James Beard Award thank you for the incredibly original cooking here. The always-buzzing restaurant is Italian, but worldwide influences and practices pop up in approximately every dish, like an avocado that’s been conserved in yuzu fat with pineapple mostarda. Last time, the Bardea team unbolted next door. With a huge menu of infrequent breeds and a $180 steak recognition, it’s not your grandpa’s steakhouse.
Soup Noodle Soup (pop-up)
In the first days of the pandemic, cook Andrew Cini began serving soup from his room to the Wilmington Civic. Using a pay-it-forward classic, Soup Noodle Potage gave nationals a way to feast on some luxury from aloofness and help feed out-of-work welcome pros. Once cafeterias started initial backup to empty eating rooms, he joined with friends Gerald Allen and Alex Neaten on a continuing series of pop-ups about Wilmington, where they serve all from pho to chicken noodle soup. Shadow along on to get the particulars, and know that a slice of sales still energies to fight malnutrition.
The Quoin
The newest opening in urban comes from the squad behind, a Fish town hot spot for pasta and wood-fired tariff. The Quoin, a hostel and cafe in a tenderly renovated downtown brownstone, concentrates on the same lovely Italian cuisine as its Philly sibling. Earlier dinner, visit Rumble Down, the glory speakeasy-style bar below, for a well-made concoction; afterwards dinner, cap the nightly upstairs at Wilmington’s only roof bar.
La Fia
Locals distinguish going to this definitive bistro for well-sourced charcuterie boards, outstanding wines by the glass, and worldwide-influenced dishes like stoop confit with sesame granola and yuzu kasha. Philadelphians will recollect owner Bryan Sikora from his cherished BYOB Django in Sovereign Village. He unbolted La Fia before Wilmington’s rebirth began and has kept it successful and robust ever since.
Ciro Food & Drink
This acclaimed Novel American restaurant by three-time James Bush nominee Michael DiBianca is a jewel at the Riverfront. After their slow-braised lamb raga and seared yellowfin tuna to their duck leg confit and mortadella risotto — there’s not a dish too decorative or determined for them to cook.
