Dewey Beach

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Dewey Beach

Dewey Beach is just south of Rehoboth Beach. It's a narrow sandbar known primarily for bars, bars and more bars, nasty fights between the "City Fathers" and the local businesspeople, and, actually a few pretty good restaurants. Fans of Dewey Beach call it "a way of life," and to love it is to love it.

Woody's East Coast Bar & Grill

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Sometimes good stuff turns up in the most unlikely places. For example, who wooda thought that you'd find an amazing crabcake at Woody's East Coast Bar & Grill in Dewey Beach? Not that I expected anything bad, but it's such an unassuming little spot, tucked into a tiny strip center with Vavala's Beach Things and a Post Office.

After many emails urging me to try the place, one of my favorite Foodettes finally took action: She told me to get

Port

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Mitch King, former owner of Scraps in that same location, partnered-up with his nephew Zack and reinvented the place as Port. Their good relationship with the owners of Dewey's Starboard was partial impetus for the name. ("Port" / "Starboard...." Get it?). Anything's better than Scraps. What was he thinking?

The restaurant is small with low ceilings, so it can get noisy in there. I've had complaints about the noise, but Mitch is spending a bundle to take care of the problem. He brought in a brilliant acoustic consultant to help quiet down the small room. The small size also works to the customers' advantage: Mitch and Zack buy pretty much

Two Seas

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Before I write about a restaurant, I usually go on line to check out the menu and the general "feel" of the place. After searching (unsuccessfully) for a website (and anything other than a (wrong) map from Yahoo), I called Two Seas to ask if they did, indeed, have some sort of Web presence. The matriarch of the Karr family, Emily, answered the phone. Unfazed by my whining, she cackled,

Venus on the Half Shell

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Venus on the Half Shell in Dewey Beach never really impressed me that much until recently, when uber-chef Pete McMahon took over control of the kitchen. Formerly of the Blue Moon (and more recently, part-owner/chef for JD Shuckers and former manager of the never-a-dull-moment