The Good Earth
Let’s start with what Good Earth is: a restaurant, pantry, market, event space, and all-around garden-centric healthy eating destination with inventive culinary options appealing to vegetarian and non-vegetarian discerning diners. Let’s shift to what Good Earth is not: a boring healthy food kitchen with bland offerings that diners who embrace calories should avoid. Good Earth has something for everybody no matter how particular your family’s eating needs. Lunch and brunch are among the most inviting at the beach, offering healthy and less than healthy options from acai bowls and avocado toast specials to decadent French toast and sandwiches, many with their share of calories. Salads, meats, shrimp skewers, and BBQ wings round out a lunch menu filled with variety. Dinners include inventive chicken, beef, and fish dishes, and tasty starters too numerous to list – and all of them delightful. When the food is presented, it is hard to believe this is a healthy-choice restaurant, but the menu appeals to everyone in your party, including those who just want to enjoy libations, because Good Earth has a full drink menu and welcoming bar, which helps you prepare for Dicken’s Parlour Theater, in its backyard. The grounds are beautiful, allowing garden dining and roof-covered options, and when you finish, there is a small market to meet your health food needs. Around for nearly 20 years, Good Earth is often overlooked when discussing Bethany Beach area fine dining options, but word is spreading among the health and non-health conscious, and the kitchen is getting busy. Not unlike many high-end healthy eating restaurants, Good Earth is not for the fiscally prudent diner, but the food and attentive service are worth the stretch.
