The Results of the First “Three Foods You Must Eat From Delaware’s Three Counties” Survey
This has been fun. I messed up and didn’t get one of Kent County’s best foods on the ballot, but there is always next year.
So here is the final list:
Representing New Castle County, The Bobbie from Capriotti’s 
I find it a little dry, but your comments have swayed me that this is a decent sandwich.
Representing Kent County, The Crabs from Sambo’s Tavern.
Crabs are the ultimate “sit around with some beer and make a day of it” food, so this is one where the eating experience enters into the popularity. I was going to use my judges challenge and knock Sambo’s out in favor of Dover’s Frankfurt Bakery an its Cheese Danish – but that Cheese Danish is so good, it doesn’t need me rigging the ballot box.
Last but not least, we have Sussex County represented by the Italian sausage with onions and peppers at “Gus & Gus Place” (yes that’s the official name, sounds odd, I know) of Rehoboth.
Someone once told me that “hunger is the best sauce.” There is certainly something to that because I think there is nothing like hanging out on a beach and swimming in the Atlantic all day to make food taste good. So Gus & Gus benefits from location, but by all reports, this sandwich is an awesome eat.
> Next up… “”Three Dive Bars You Must Drink At in Delaware’s Three Counties”
I’ve eaten two of the three. Now I am going to have to find this Sambo’s. Great idea for a post, btw. If you decide on a contest for worst bathrooms in each county, I would also nominate Gus & Gus Place. Those people must be rolling in dough, but I don’t think they’ve updated/cleaned that bathroom since the 70’s.
For me Sambos and Boondocks are a tossup. I like the lobster claws at boondocks. The setting for Sambo’s is a little nicer.
Has anyone tried the crabs from Gus and Gus’s nasty bathroom?
I will not make any sausage jokes…
I can’t believe Grotto’s didn’t make that list though. 10 years ago hell, maybe 20 it would have
I remember waiting an hour to get in that place when ever I would visit the beach.
DV – Grotto didn’t make the list because we were rating food, not cardboard with tomato sauce on it.
fair enough, but your food rating meter means nothing to me since you don’t know what scrapple is.
I know what scrapple is – I just don’t eat the crap. First, it’s not Kosher, and second, Soylent Green is people (isn’t scrapple, too?).
I almost just posted my favorite spot to get pizza at the beach then I realized I don’t want all you tourists to crowd the place up.
Casa di Leo has the best pizza at the beach. Louie’s is a close second.
@MJ-Boooo,Hisssssss!
Scrapple crap?
I used to stock the very small Jewish section at ACME.The Gefilte fish floating in whatever always amazed me.Now THAT looked weird.
Kosher or not.
BTW, if I knew how to read before acquiring a taste for scrapple I doubt I’d have ever tried it.
I’ll tell you a story about that next time we talk.
For years Grotto’s had billboards up on Rt. 1 stating “Grotto’s Pizza… You can almost taste it”.
I thought that just about summed up how their pizza tasted.
Everyone knows you don’t go to the beach to eat pizza! You go to eat caramel popcorn, fudge, french fries, Sour Patch Kids and ice cream, and then puke all over the inside of the spaceship ride at Funland. Ahhhh … good memories.
Grotto’s is a nasty reheated slice of crap. Cheddar cheese, sauce sprayed through a tube on top… ugh. Real pizza has mozzarella.
Although I am slightly biased. I will say there are MUCH better beach pizza places than what Grotto has become. Some hole in the wall mom and pops really hit homeruns.
I ate Grotto’s when it was just a hole in the wall on the boardwalk in the late 60’s.[?]
It really isn’t that special but I enjoy the taste for nostalgic reasons.
I say make your own.
The sauce or gravy is the key in addition to a decent crust.
Fresh toppings can be found anywhere.
Boboli’s makes a nice thin style crust.
Your home made sauce and fresh cheese and toppings will usually match anything in a restaurant.
If any of you mention my spot i will flip the fuck out!
So, yeah, go to grotto it’s great…
Did I touch a nerve, Phil? 🙂
Nah, i encourage everyone to go to casa di leo. I’m actually amazed by how full their parking lot is all the time. Louie’s is good, but greasy. (Good AND greasy?)
MJ: No offense, but I’m skeptical about taking eating advice from someone who, on the command of God, was told never to eat a crab cake or a cheeseburger.