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Best of Delaware

Salt Air

Categories
  • Food and Drink
  • 2010: Best Chef 2010: Best Desserts

Essential Information

50 Wilmington Ave.
Rehoboth Beach, DE

302-227-2444

Nino Mancari has a butcher’s diagram of a pig—the logo of legendary London restaurant St. John—tattooed on his right forearm. He named his son Keller in honor of restaurateur Thomas Keller. To say Mancari is into food is probably understating it a bit. The Bethany Beach native brings farm-to-table acumen to Salt Air, where his simple-yet-elegant dishes won over the town’s finicky foodies in short time. “There’s room for the aesthetics,” he says, “but I like really simple.” Head to Salt Air to witness Mancari turning the best of our local produce into works of art.

Salt Air’s desserts, done by pastry chef Jesse Moore, mirror the restaurant’s dinner menu: creative, but never esoteric. Try the rosemary scone-based strawberry shortcake with mint and citrus macerated strawberries, or the sublime blackberry buckle with cinnamon gelato.

Additional Information

Best of Delaware History:

2010: Best Chef - Nino Mancari, Critics, Downstate
2010: Best Desserts, Critics, Downstate

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