This post is a restaurant review, my first ever review. A different version will be posted to a private Heritage Shores Facebook group.
Derby’s is local eatery about 1/2 mile from the Harrington Casino and Delaware State Fair Grounds. The casino has a couple of onsite restaurants. One, I consider overpriced but what’s an overpriced meal to folks who can drop a couple hundred of dollars gambling? Another restaurant located in casino has better prices but has a more limited menu.
My wife and I decided to go out to eat, without it being any special occasion, was looking for a balance of good food and decent prices.
Well, Derby’s provided both. The ambiance is “where the locals eat”, with nothing fancy. The place was full of people who seemed to know each other. It’s a little noisy as folks are eating, drinking and having a good time. They didn’t seem to be pretentious people, my kind of people.
The menu has a variety different foods, from appetizers to drinks, chicken, burgers, BBQ, seafood, and desserts.
For an appetizer, I had a salad and my wife a cup of soup. No complaints there.
My spouse had sauteed chicken over angel hair pasta with a blush sauce(wine gives it a blush). Now she had a choice of 4 different pastas. The chicken breast was not overcooked and remained moist and tender. We rate restaurants on how they cook chicken breast. I do the cooking at home and realize you have to not overcook anything with chicken breast in it. Who wants rubber chicken breasts?
I decided to order a Shrimp and Scallop stir fry. It delicious was the shrimp and scallops were not over cooked. Who wants to eat rubber-like scallops? Not me. The stir fry came over a bed of rice.
Margo and I both enjoyed our meals but felt the cook put too much thickener in the sauces. They came smothered in sauce. I’ll be returning and will ask for the sauce on the side . It could be claimed my dish was perfect if it weren’t for too sauce which was a tad salty.
Bottom line:
We had 2 appetizers, a glass of wine, a bottle of Heineken Zero, a salad, a cup of soup, 2 entrees, ice cream and bread pudding for dessert and (wait for it…) the cost only $56. I added a $10 tip in cash I had on me.
This will be a great place to go when I don’t feel like cooking. On special occasions, we’ll pick out a little more upscale joint like the French restaurant a few miles from us. The food is expensive but worth every bite.
