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Sweet options like a Dutch Baby with blackberry, brown butter crème Chantilly and calvados-caramel pecans or a Belgian Waffle with flambéed banana and nutella ganache.
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Steak & eggs, Tunisian Shakshouka, and a jumbo lump crab Omelette.
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Parfaits, fruit salads, and grapefruit with palm sugar brulée and mint.
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Salads that range from Lyonnaise to Caesar.
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A section devoted to sandwiches – such as Croque Madame and swordfish sandwich.
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Coffee from La Colombe and tea service, craft cocktails, beer and wine by the glass or bottle.
Glasgow mainstay La Casa Pasta is a short walk to the Shoprite in the Four Seasons area south of Newark. It makes sense that some of the restaurant’s offerings should make their way to the store during the pandemic.
According to a social media post, the restaurant’s homemade meatballs, pasta, cheese, crab and lobster ravioli are available, along with homemade tomato or marinara sauce. Coming in the winter is a Bolognese sauce.
The La Casa Pasta items will be available at the Glasgow, Newark and Bear stores.
The Kenny family Shoprites have long featured items from local food purveyors.
La Casa Pasta is part of a family-owned restaurant group that includes Klondike Kate’s in Newark and the Chesapeake Inn in Chesapeake City.
Vita Nova closes for the semester
The University of Delaware’s highly regarded Vita Nova student run restaurant is closed for the remainder of the semester. Cited was an abundance of caution due to the Covid-19 pandemic
UD, like other universities is dealing with a rising number of positive cases of the virus.
Service at Vita Nova had been limited to takeout.
Rosenfeld’s opening Wilmington location on Monday
Rosenfelds’s Jewish Delicatessen will open its Wilmington location at 10:30 a.m. on Monday.
The deli will be the third for Rosenfeld’s, which got its start in Ocean City, MD and added a second location on Coastal Highway in the Rehoboth area. An outpost at the airport in Salisbury was closed as travel plunged.
Rosenfeld’s earlier annunced an agreement with Big Fish Restaurant group that will spur expansion. The Wilmington location, near ChristianaCare’s Wilmington Hospital, is part of a restaurant complex owned by Rehoboth-based Big Fish.
Five Guys opens
Following Covid-19 delays, Five Guys opened in the food court at Christiana Mall. Five Guys replaces McDonald’s, which fled the mall a while back. Like its Christiana Mall food court neighbor Chick ‘fil A, Five Guys has a location a short distance away in Governor’s Square, off Route 40 in Bear.
The fast food giant has been dealing with too many inside locations as well as the economics of cranking out a lower-priced menu while paying hefty mall rents. McDonald’s has also departed Walmart locations.
Curiously, the Golden Arches did not come up with a free-standing location somewhere around the mall, given the high traffic counts.
