Ten downtown Rehoboth Beach restaurants are gearing up for Mardi Gras festivities Feb. 12-16, featuring special New Orleans cuisine and Cajun cooking, Bourbon Street beverages, Mardi Gras Parties, live music and beads, beads, beads!
Restaurants include Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, Dos Locos Fajita & Stonegrill, Finbar's Pub & Grill, Hobos Restaurant & Bar, Irish Eyes, Mariachi Restaurant, Pig + Fish Restaurant Company, Purple Parrot Grill, Porcini House, & Rehoboth Ale House. Although the Gumbo Cook-off is suspended for 2010, there will be lots of beignets (a New Orleans signature breakfast), Po’ Boys, and Cajun Etouffe, and many other Cajun or Creole recipes as restaurants will cook New Orleans style and serve up feasts and fun!
There will be special Mardi Gras parties and meals all over town at participating restaurants beginning on Fat Tuesday (Feb. 12) and running through Feb. 16. Check out the Rehoboth Beach Main Street web site at www.downtownrehoboth.com for menu and party details, and addresses and phone numbers for each of the participating restaurants.
As part of the Mardi Gras celebration, participating restaurants and retailers will be selling raffle tickets to benefit future events, promotion, and revitalization efforts in downtown Rehoboth Beach. The Grand Prize winner(s) will receive a basket full of $25 gift certificates to select businesses in downtown Rehoboth Beach- including restaurants participating in Mardi Gras. For a list of prizes and ticket sales locations, see www.downtownrehoboth.com.
As they say in French New Orleans, “Laissez les bons temps rouler” – "let the good times roll" – right in Rehoboth Beach for Main Street’s Mardi Gras Feb. 12-16.
For more information call 302-227-2772 or visit www.downtownrehoboth.com.
