Flavor
When you provocatively name a restaurant, ‘Flavor,’ patron food expectations are high; when it is part of the Good Earth family of restaurants, the expectations are even higher. Fortunately, like everything else bearing the ‘Good Earth’ imprimatur of food and management, Flavor delivers. The restaurant is housed in a high-ceiling, decorated in a ‘dedicated-to-Broadway’ space, specially constructed to accommodate the next-door Dickens Theater; that is, Flavor serves as essentially pre-theater (show) dining. But the restaurant is open to the general public, and will start drawing a larger audience when word escapes that food is as much a draw as the show space that Flavor supports. That is, Flavor will start drawing a non-theater crowd, so visit before word escapes about this under-the-radar comfort dining gem. Flavor boasts among the best hand-made burgers at the beach, carefully prepared salads and other sandwiches, and an overall comfort food menu that leans coastal and, umm, flavorful. And don’t forget the best shakes at the beach, rivaling New York’s famous ‘Black Tap’ restaurants known for exotic adult and non-adult shakes and deserts. Flavor is not high-end dining, but for comfort food, it is as flavorful as you will find west of the beach, and serves, if you time it right, as a pre-theater meal before an always good show at the next-door Dickins Theater. The Good Earth brand is slowly gathering hospitality momentum in Ocean View and should be paid attention to for new offerings that the Delmarva Foodie Elitist has learned are being planned . . .