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9/30 - Dover International Speedway (DE)
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9/8 - Richmond Int'l Raceway (VA) click here
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8/26 - Bristol Motor Speedway (TN) - click here
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SIDE DISHES...
Food, Racing & More
Family Seafood Tradition...
In the battle of local seafood, Pleasonton's is the underdog. This family owned seafood place is more of a seafood market than restaurant. You can go in and order crabs and they will cook it up for you right there or you can bring some back to your hotel. It's as fresh as you can get and full of local-family owned love. Great people and good seafood.
Pleasonton's Seafood
6738 North Dupont Highway
Dover, DE 19901-2616
(302) 730-0744
Manga Manga!
You can never have enough Italian choices. Check out this place if you are in the Newark Area. It's a bit pricey but offers great authentic Italian cuisine.
Nonna Restorante
4621 Ogletown Stanton Rd
Newark, DE
(302) 737-4545
Dover Flying Pigs?
If you are looking for BBQ in Delaware...this is your place.
Where Pigs Fly
617 E. Loockerman Street
Dover, Delaware
(302)678-0586
visit their site click here
Organic?
For those health conscious folks who like organic options...try HomeGrown in Newark. It's a vegetarian paradise with a creative menu that features local produce.
HomeGrown Cafe
126 East Main Street
Newark, DE
(302) 266-6993
visit their site click here
DIRT TRACK EXCITEMENT!
09/29/12 - NAPA Big Blocks, Late Models, AC Delco, Crate Models, and Mod Lites plus Little Lincolns at Delaware Int'l Speedway in Delmar!
Delaware Int'l Speedway
37854 Sussex Hwy
Delmar, DE
302 846-3968
visit their site click here
Airport Speedway Saturday Nights!
If you are staying anywhere near New Castle, DE... check out Airport Speedway. This grassroots 1/8 clay oval features Micro Sprint racing.
Airport Speedway
2412 Speedway Dr
New Castle, DE
302-328-8302
visit their site click here
THE MONSTER!
If you don't have your ticket already, go see the Monster... Dover International Speedway. A great weekend of racing is on tap at the fearsome concrete oval.
Breakfast Lunch and Dillner: Charlotte
MD checks out a breakfast, lunch and dinner spot and picks what to eat in three Charlotte food spots.
If you dont like dealing with the mess of cracking crabs..get a crab cake. It is crab cake region! This particular beauty is from June at Woody's Crab House (Maryland) shortly before I made it disappear.
- Dover -
Cool Springs
NASCAR Media Group cameraman Gary Johnson found this place a sevearal years back when we were both working on the tv show Totally NASCAR. Don't be fooled by it's strip-mall location. Cool Springs is one of the best places to eat near Dover and has eclectic dishes and seafood favorites. The NASCAR PR staff gives Cool Springs many thumbs up as well!
2463 S State Street
Dover, DE 19901-6304
(302) 698-1955
to visit their site click here
Meding and Son Seafood
NASCAR driver Brendan Gaughan raves about this one. All sorts of crab and cajun fare.The giant propeller out front is from an aircraft carrier that saw action in World War II and Vietnam) Momma Anne Meding’s cream of she-crab soup is one of the staples of this place.
3697 Bay Road,
Milford, DE
(302) 335-3944
to visit their site click here
Roma Italian Restaurant
Peter "Rabbit" Jellen, long-time transporter driver and crew member with the #18 Joe Gibbs Racing Kyle Busch Team, offered up this place to us a few years back. It's a great, affordable Italian place close to the track. It's right near Dover Airforce Base. A favorite of Jason "Eagle" Allison.
3 President Dr
Dover, DE 19901
302-678-1041
visit their site click here
Boondocks
While Sambo's is the traditional crab spot for most in the NASCAR garage, Boondocks is the OTHER crab place. We find it to me far more polite and welcoming than Sambo's. Boondocks offers great food and service and is a true coastal original. It's also family owned and operated!
825 Lighthouse Road
Smyrna, DE 19977-3331
(302) 653-6962
Potstickers
From Sushi to traditional wok meals, Potstickers is your asian food choice if you are staying in Newark. Outside, it's a strip mall eatery. Inside, it's a upscale but fun atmoshere. Happy hour from 3 to 7pm every night!
1247 New Churchmans Rd.
Centre Point Plaza II
Newark, DE
(302) 731-0188
Mari Monti Restorante
Mari Monti is a casual, but more upscale restaurant than some of our other Dover food-finds. It's another "don't be fooled by it's strip-mall location" places. It offers a great menu of gourmet italian dishes. The seafood is fresh and wonderful. MD and all of the folks from Racing Electronics, including owner Bruce Silver, eat there during race weekend.
1030 Forrest Avenue
Dover, DE 19904
(302) 674-0966
Sambo's Tavern
It's a place that you'd only hear about from someone who's been. You won't find this remote location in your travels around Dover Int'l Raceway. Sambo's is off the beaten path but on the radar for nearly everyone in the NASCAR garage. Robby Gordon several of us to Sambo's for the first time several years ago. It's a small seafood restaurant that is usually packed with NASCAR folks. We even saw Jeff Gordon dining there the other year.
Newpaper covered tables and crabs, that's all you really need to know! Get ready to get messy. This place is known for it's crabs and it is essential to roll-up the sleeves and get crackin!
283 Front Street
Leipsic, DE 19901-1736
(302) 674-9724
Helen's Famous Sausage House
It's a simple equation. Take a simple menu, trucker hours and a family recipe of sausage passed down four-generations and it equals Helen's Famous Sausage House. It's been open since 1985 and is a pretty cool lil' family operated place. Sausage lovers, check it out!
4866 N. Du Pont Hwy.
Smyrna, DE
(302) 653-4200
visit their site click here
CHECK OUT THE SIDE DISHES SECTION FOR MORE!!!
Kyle Turner
front changer on the 15 MWR (Clint Bowyer)
Doc Magrogans - Dover Downs Casino
1131 North Dupont Highway, Dover, DE
(302) 674-4757
"Great food and a great atmosphere," says Kyle
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