The Dfi Cafe - New Castle

Friendliest place in town. Very cozy, excellent drinks and beers. Wonderful happy hour selections. Pulled pork sliders with pineapple were over the top. If you want a good time in Old New Castle come here! Stop by and visit the brewery room!

Great restaurant under new ownership. Loving the new menu. Crabcakes, steaks, cheeseburgers, tater tots and so on, yum! Good service, really cute little town and the patio is so nice ! They have heaters so even when it's colder you can still enjoy it.

Love this place! Beautiful decor. Their menu is small but the food is so so good! Our waiter was on the ball! They bring your bill in small books. So very cool!

Beautiful backyard! If you don't like DOGS do not go there because people come with pets to the patio. Food was so so... but nice friendly servers.

It pains me to leave this review. Honestly. As a young resident of this little town, I really, really, really wanted to love this place. The first time we went (summer 2021), it was a fine experience. Probably four stars because of the hospitality, food was three stars. But they did a menu change a few months ago and added online ordering. Both of those things appealed to me and we decided to give it another shot. The first time we ordered online they didn't even start the order until we arrived to pick it up (well over an hour later) and we ended up being an hour late to our planned evening with friends. The food was good (pulled pork, veggie burger, crab cake, all actually really good), but no one cared that I had ordered online for pickup at a certain time, and no one offered any kind of apology. And an hour makes a difference when both families have young kids, so their delay basically ruined the evening. But the food was good, so we gave it another shot. This time we called in the order: pulled pork sandwich and black bean burger. They said it would be about 15 minutes so my husband gave them extra time and walked over about 20 minutes later. And again, no one had any idea about the order and it was clear it hasn't been started. My husband waited another hour for two sandwiches. No apology, nothing. And no, it wasn't busy. But again, the food was good. So when we had a friend in town last weekend, we thought we would give it one last try. We went over and there were four people eating inside. We needed a high chair, so they sat us upstairs, I guess which is where they keep their high chairs. Between the manager who instructed the host to seat us, the bartender who confirmed the high chairs were upstairs, the guy who brought us the high chair and a different guy who brought us bread, at least FOUR people at the restaurant knew we had been seated upstairs. And not a single person came to take our order. We waited for 20 minutes and finally gave up. Bottom line: good food but wildly unreliable service. Don't even bother with the online ordering or even calling it in. And don't sit upstairs if you expect to actually eat there. But the food is good. :