Heading to Wilmington Area this Wednesday

[Liminy]

Finally getting a vacation for a week, the lady and I are heading to the Wilmington area and I wanted to know if anyone here could give me some good food places, interesting things to do around there or where a good place to watch the game on Sunday would be? Any suggestions are appreciated!

[cookinbrak]

What kind of food are you looking for?

There are a billion overpriced frufru places here.

[Hugor Hill]

I was just in Wilmington. If you drive over to Southport there are some nice little shops you can walk around and look at and then stroll down to the water front. There are a couple of places there that are magnificent. The Provision is good as is the Yacht Basin Eatery.( I recommend the Mahi mahi tacos there)

[Hugor Hill]

also, there is a breakfast joint called Jimbo's. You should go there if you want the best breakfast in Wilmington.

[Liminy]

5 hours ago, cookinbrak said:

What kind of food are you looking for?

There are a billion overpriced frufru places here.

Probably wont be going out too much for food, so kind of just looking for any must try or must see places.

[Hugor Hill]

2 hours ago, Liminy said:

Probably wont be going out too much for food, so kind of just looking for any must try or must see places.

I mistakingly wrote down the Pavillion when I know I the Provision is what I meant.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/provision-company-southport

 

Also, the Yacht Basin Eatery right next door to the Provision does indeed have NFL games on there.

[imminent rogaine]

If you like Thai/Asian, indochine is dope.

[cookinbrak]

Indochine has some really good food, but get there early. Or wait for over an hour.

Mexican food- El Cerro Grande, La Costa

Soul/country food- Caseys

Henrys, Olympia (Greek), Something Fishy.

There's a place called C Street Mexican Grill that makes the best burritos (get the Catamaran).

Don't go near the beaches or downtown to eat.

 

[RealBitsOfPanther]

Downtown Wilmy can be fun at times. There's all sorts of little restaurants in bars on 3rd st and the majority of them are pretty good. When the Fiance and I are down there we just kind of pick one. However, Front Street Brewery is solid. Good food and pretty good selection of different beers. You could be ultra touristy and stop by Flaming Amy's for some burritos (the fried chicken one is the business). J. Michael's Philly Deli is decent, but a little overpriced. 

If the weather is decent, I'd try and hit up the beach for a little bit. Wrightsville and Carolina Beach are nice. If you head towards Carolina Beach, there's a little board walk that you can walk down. Your chick will prob dig it. If you do go to the boardwalk, check out Britt's Donuts. Just make sure you have cash on you because they don't take a card. You could also check out the Fort Fisher Aquarium and just the area in general. It's really nice down towards that way. 

You could check out the Battleship North Carolina if you haven't done that yet. It's kind of cool to walk through. It's a WW2 battleship that chills on the river. 

[RealBitsOfPanther]

On 9/19/2016 at 8:52 AM, Hugor Hill said:

I was just in Wilmington. If you drive over to Southport there are some nice little shops you can walk around and look at and then stroll down to the water front. There are a couple of places there that are magnificent. The Provision is good as is the Yacht Basin Eatery.( I recommend the Mahi mahi tacos there)

And I second this. Provision is awesome. The restaurant is on a dock so, you're eating right next to the water. The only bad thing is that you have to drive through Brunswick County to get there. Lol. 

[Hugor Hill]

33 minutes ago, RealBitsOfPanther said:

Downtown Wilmy can be fun at times. There's all sorts of little restaurants in bars on 3rd st and the majority of them are pretty good. When the Fiance and I are down there we just kind of pick one. However, Front Street Brewery is solid. Good food and pretty good selection of different beers. You could be ultra touristy and stop by Flaming Amy's for some burritos (the fried chicken one is the business). J. Michael's Philly Deli is decent, but a little overpriced. 

If the weather is decent, I'd try and hit up the beach for a little bit. Wrightsville and Carolina Beach are nice. If you head towards Carolina Beach, there's a little board walk that you can walk down. Your chick will prob dig it. If you do go to the boardwalk, check out Britt's Donuts. Just make sure you have cash on you because they don't take a card. You could also check out the Fort Fisher Aquarium and just the area in general. It's really nice down towards that way. 

You could check out the Battleship North Carolina if you haven't done that yet. It's kind of cool to walk through. It's a WW2 battleship that chills on the river. 

Britts Donuts is closed for the season already. We went by there and they had the sign posted. I was so freaking sad.

[RealBitsOfPanther]

 

[thefuzz]

I'm more than happy to help.  What are you guys into?

 

Probably going to be a wet weekend for you either way.

[Liminy]

42 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

I'm more than happy to help.  What are you guys into?

 

Probably going to be a wet weekend for you either way.

Yeah, I got my fingers crossed for some sort of decent weather at least at some point during my stay.

As far as what we are into, really anything, really just looking for things that I cant get out here in the midwest, so pretty much anything lol.  Just trying to hear the good places from the people that have been there and not leave myself to random google searches and yelp reviews.