2 Best Restaurants in Centreville, Delaware

Popular with locals, this casual roadside tavern in a building dating back to 1817 serves your typical burgers, classic comfort food, and salads, but the menu has a few surprises such as shrimp and grits and crab Cobb salad. Pick from the wine list and dine on the sunny porch, by the bar with its TV, or in a dining room with a fireplace. If you wear your pajamas to the Sunday brunch, your entrée will be half off, and you won't be alone, either.

Oil paintings of regal felines watch over diners at this plushly but wittily furnished restaurant, complete with animal-print chairs, in a former blacksmith shop at the Inn at Montchanin Village. The unique setting and creative modern American menu draw regulars from Wilmington, Philadelphia, and beyond, who come for a frequently changing seasonal menu that includes ample seafood and mushroom options as well as beef choices. Try breakfast here before you start your day of sightseeing.