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Best of Delaware

Chelsea Tavern

Categories:
  • Food and Drink
  • 2011: Best Fun Restaurant 2011: Best Cholesterol Bomb Burger 2010: Best Draft Beer Selection

Essential Information

821 Market St.
Wilmington, DE

302-482-3333

Chef Sean McNeice stretches the bounds of creativity, constantly surprising diners with delightfully twisted everyday faves, such as white buffalo chili (made of bison and white beans) and chicken pot pie with herbed dumplings, winter roots and Guinness gravy.

Chelsea’s Dirty Burger is a towering monument to meat: a crispy, deep-fried burger patty topped with fried scrapple, smoked bacon, a fried egg and American cheese on a brioche bun. It’s so good, it’s bad. Or so bad, it’s good.

From 2010:

One of the mottoes floating around at Chelsea Tavern is “nothing with a commercial.” That means you won’t find Bud Light or its ilk among the 21 craft brews on tap. What you will find are a couple of exclusive drafts made for Chelsea. There’s the Chelsea Lager, produced by Victory Brewing Co. of Downingtown, Pennsylvania; and Chelsea Brown Ale, made by Dogfish Head. Craft breweries such as Chimay, Sierra Nevada and local faves Twin Lakes and 16 Mile get tapped, too. Stay tuned for special beer dinners from this Market Street newbie.

Additional Information

Best of Delaware History:

2011 Best Fun Restaurant, Critics
2011 Best Cholesterol Bomb Burger, Critics
2010 Best Draft Beer Selection, Critics, Upstate

From the Delaware Today Archive: http://www.delawaretoday.com/Delaware...