Photo courtesy of Rehoboth Main Street (rehomain.com)
Here at Rehoboth in My Pocket, we’re all about beach, food, fun, and fireworks!
Living life to the fullest! Celebration!
So, in celebration of July 4 weekend at the beach, we’re lowering the price of our app – the Rehoboth in My Pocket travel guide for iPhone and iPad – to just 99 cents!
Here’s the scoop: One day only, on Wednesday, June 29, download the Rehoboth in My Pocket app for only 99 cents! (A 75% savings over the usual $3.99 price!) *Important note: Buy the app early in the day – Apple resets the price rather randomly, so no guarantees the price stays at $.99 until midnight. Just sayin’.
Buy apps for your beach-loving friends and your vacation-loving parents (just choose “Gift this App” when you buy it, and enter your friends’ email address!).
Then, head out to Rehoboth and raise a ruckus. And don’t miss the Rehoboth fireworks on July 4!
Here’s what’s new in the app:
✔ All entries updated for 2011!
✔ New categories, including Events, Hidden Gems, Eating Out-Outside!, Pet Friendly, and Open Year Round!
✔ 35 new entries, including handy lists for vacationers – such as Grocery Stores and Beer/Wine/Liquor Stores – plus dozens of events in Rehoboth, Lewes, and Dewey Beach
✔ More internal and external links to help you find what you need
✔ 160 pages and 700+ photos!
View "Rehoboth in My Pocket app just 99 cents June 29" on its own page.
Your mom loves Rehoboth. You love your mom. Mother’s Day is fast approaching. We have an app for that! 
“Like” our new Facebook page by midnight Thursday (May 5) for a chance to win one of five FREE Rehoboth in My Pocket Apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ll notify the winners on Friday a.m. so you have time to gift the app to your favorite mommy.
Even if you don’t win, the Rehoboth in My Pocket app is completely updated for summer and a great mom’s day gift, at just $3.99. You don’t even have to get off the couch to send it to her – just find our App in the iTunes store, pick “Gift this App,” and enter your mom’s email address and a gift message.
So easy, so thoughtful. You really are the perfect child!
View "Gift Your Mother! The Great Rehoboth App Giveaway!" on its own page.
Keep your eyes peeled for a passel of iPhone-toting moms wandering the roads of Rehoboth this weekend. Members of Philly Social Media Moms are in town for a mommy getaway/blogging event.
Philly Social Media Moms is a group of blogging moms in the Philadelphia region with 75+ social media savvy members. They have been invited to appear on news programs, attend red carpet events, serve as Disney ambassadors, and travel extensively to promote various campaigns. Power bloggers with reach!
So, if you see them, be nice
Rehoboth in My Pocket is happy to be sponsoring the Moms and helping them find their way around town with complimentary copies of the Rehoboth in My Pocket iPhone app. Follow the moms on Twitter at #DEBeachBloggin all weekend.
View "Blogging Moms Descend on Rehoboth Beach" on its own page.
Get it while you can
View "No iPhone Friday: Jungle Jim’s Adventure World" on its own page.
It’s closing in on Labor Day and we are sad. And we have a confession to make. We are no longer Rehoboth homeowners – after three years on the market, our rental house sold in mid-June. So we no longer have sleepless night worries about the house burning down mid-season. But on the other hand, we have no Rehoboth to look forward to come September, once the renters clear out.
So, we’re sad, and we’re torturing ourselves by remembering all the things we love so much: morning walks in The Pines, cinnamon-y Cafe con Leches at Cafe a Go Go, riding bikes on the Junction & Breakwater Trail to Lewes, browsing in Browseabout Books, napping, chocolate espresso martinis at Hobos (and crab dip, and crab quesadillas, and and and), fish and chips at Go Fish (at off-season prices, especially!), everything at Pig & Fish. We could go on and on (which is why we wrote an app about it).
But the story we haven’t told you yet is about our last weekend. Last weekends are the pits. You’re exhausted from all the boo-hooing and grubby from all the packing and hauling, and the pressure to have the perfect ending is immense. How to choose??
So we picked two last meals (one would never have been enough). And we picked two new places, places that we’d never been able to get into before (too popular), and that would send us off with new memories of an old friend.
So here’s your No iPhone Friday – a two-fer, to two new friends who sent us off with full bellies and happy hearts.
GreenMan Juice Bar & Bistro
Finally, finally got into GreenMan, after several years of passing dejectedly by the often-packed porch, and can now report: true happiness. The long list of fruit and tea smoothies is just the teaser to get you in. What keeps you sitting on that cute front porch are the generous, creative – and even healthy – grilled sandwiches, chilled sides, and soups and quiches of the day.
I asked for a recommendation and went with what I heard: The Bengali: grilled flatbread sandwich stuffed with Indian-spiced sauteed spinach, slices of ripe tomato, and mild goat cheese. $8.95. Worth every penny. Makes you want to go buy some spinach just to see if you can recreate those subtle, tasty Indian flavors.
We also tried The Havana: Organic Smoked Turkey Breast, Turkey Pastrami, Swiss Cheese, Dijonnaise, and Dill Pickle. Also $8.95. Excellent adaptation of the Cuban.
For breakfast, oatmeal with organic toppings; Creme Brulee French Toast; Sausage & Gravy (with turkey sausage); Quiche of the Day or Crepes of the Day; breakfast sandwiches with free range, local organic eggs on ciabatta, whole wheat bagel or wheatberry toast; GreenMan Breakfast Wrap with organic vegetables and potatoes sauteed with tofu in a whole wheat wrap, served with fresh tomato salsa; granola bowl with yogurt and fruit.
Breakfast and lunch only. 12 Wilmington Avenue, Rehoboth
Blue Moon Restaurant
When restaurants in Rehoboth grow up, they want to be Blue Moon. Nearly three decades in business, these guys still have it going on.
Blue Moon is housed in a brilliant blue Victorian beach house and has a couple of cozy dining rooms – one with a fireplace for winter nights, and one with a retractable roof for summer evenings – and a small drinks patio out front.
The menu offers traditional seafood and meats, but prepares them in the most mouth-watering ways.
Check this out:
Roasted Baby Rack of Lamb
Grain mustard-herb crust, butternut-potato-gruyere lasagna, asparagus, baby carrots and pinot noir reduction.
Or this one:
Braised Buffalo Short Ribs
Gorgonzola grits, charred Brussels sprouts, crispy onion rings, salsa verde, smoked tomato jus
Yum. And after Labor Day, locals flock back for the $35 Tuesday Tasting Dinner with three courses and wine. When you can get a discount here, grab it: Blue Moon is the most expensive restaurant in town.
Thursday evenings are karaoke at 9:30, but if you’re thinking of trotting out your best My Way for a lark, know this: Rehoboth has some world-class talent. So bring your A game.
The Blue Moon Divas Show on Fridays at 9:30 has been called the best drag show in the state. No cover. 35 Baltimore Avenue, Rehoboth
View "No iPhone Friday two-fer: Green Man and Blue Moon" on its own page.
Kayaking the Canal (photo borrowed, with muchisimas gracias, from Quest Kayak web site)
Boat rental hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 10 am-4 pm
Saturdays and Sundays 9 am-6 pm
Closed October through April
In honor of spring, fresh produce, and all that’s right with the world, this week’s “No iPhone Friday” features Rehoboth Farmers Market.
Each Friday, we’ll post one of the reviews from the Rehoboth in My Pocket app here on the website. It’s our way of inviting everyone in, once a week, for free. No iPhone required!
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Tuesdays between 12 and 4, from early May to October, check out the Rehoboth Beach Farmer’s Market in Grove Park (you’ll see the white tents in the grove of trees). About two dozen mostly-local vendors sell an interesting variety of eat-here and take-home items (as well as some oops-I-seem-to-have-eaten this-here-by-mistake goodies).
Chapel’s Country Creamery lets you sample the cheeses they make with their own hands, from their own cows (try their new blue cheese); local baker, Pasqualini’s, sells from-scratch breads, Italian pastries and gourmet dog biscuits (!); and you’ll have a tough time choosing between a huge assortment of roasted, glazed, and smoked nuts from Nuts to You (these top the oops-these-seem-to-have-disappeared category). You’ll be drawn to the irresistable aroma coming from Lavender Fields’ lavender plants and cut flowers, then break free only to land in Davidson’s Exotic Mushrooms, which gets you thinking about lunch, and hey! there’s Hobos with their fresh organic salads and wraps, and of course you’ve saved room for dessert – strawberry shortcake from Hamel’s. Jams, free-range eggs, fresh meats, produce, coffee, oysters on the half shell and more.
Buy a truffle, sandwich, or ice cream, take a seat on a park bench, and chill. This farmers market is quite a bit different than some of the weekend scrums/markets you may be familiar with.
(Don’t forget to pick up your Rehoboth in My Pocket SWAG at the Information Desk when you visit – a free signature kitchen towel! More here: http://rehobothinmypocket.com/2010/05/clean-up-with-a-free-signature-towel-at-rehoboth-farmers-market/)
Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market
Grove Park (501 Rehoboth Avenue), Rehoboth Beach
Follow the Market on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rbfarmersmarket
View "No iPhone Friday: Rehoboth Beach Farmers Market" on its own page.
Rick's view of Rehoboth Beach
Can’t see what’s in the Rehoboth in My Pocket travel guide/App ’cause you haven’t picked up your iPhone yet? You’re not alone. We’re hearing from people every day who want to take a peek, but are techno-lacking.
So, while Apple and AT&T and Verizon are duking it out, we’ll share the love by posting one listing from the Rehoboth in My Pocket app here on the website each Friday. FREE!
Yes, we do realize that this means you may no longer have any incentive to actually purchase the App, and that as a result we may end up panhandling from tourists in front of Nicola’s next summer. But we’re betting you’re going to want all the other features that come with the App on the iPhone (or iPod Touch, or iPad). And we’re also betting that we’ll be staying way ahead of you, content-wise, stuffing the App so full of yummy stuff that your resistance will ultimately be futile. (Rick?? Is that you?? How did you get hold of the keyboard?)
Oh, and to avoid the tedium of having to type in our url every Friday, go ahead and Subscribe to our Posts and you’ll receive them automagically!
But first things first: here’s a little about our development of the App. (Cuz you know you have to eat your peas before you can go to Royal Treat for dessert.)
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The great thing about smart phone travel guides, as opposed to those paper dinosaurs, is that Apps are infinitely updateable. Great new restaurant opens? We can let you know quickly. B&B changes ownership and heads into a death spiral? Poof! They’re out of here.
Rehoboth in My Pocket also gives you maps for each entry, as do all the travel apps produced by our development partner, Sutro Media. No more standing in the middle of Rehoboth Avenue wondering where Purple Parrot is (it’s right behind you), or how much farther it is to the beach (not far! You can make it!).
We did the best we could on prices and operating hours, but seasonal beach town businesses don’t operate like the rest of the world and must constantly adapt to the changing economy, time of year, phases of the moon, and the need to take some time off in the winter. So, bear with us as we try to keep up with the changes, and 
please do let us know when we’ve missed something.
For restaurant pricing, we listed the range of entrée prices, just to give you a sense of the place. Rehoboth dining is generally pretty pricey, but portion sizes are generous, so you can usually make a meal of soups, salads, or appetizers if needed. Or, better yet, check out the Happiest Happy Hour prices and take a seat at the bar – that’s where the best deals are.
For lodging, we included a small assortment of places and prices (though in high season, there are few deals to be had). There are many, many more lodging options, and if you tell us this is important to you, we’ll add many more.
Be sure to check out the “Get Your SWAG” listings in the app, and also to sign up for Rehoboth in My Pocket emails at our web site (www.RehobothInMyPocket.com). We’ve been working with some local merchants to get some nice freebies and discounts for you, and you can find it all there!
We’ve got some fun stuff planned for future updates of this app, including some lovely walk routes, more events, and more recommendations for Rehoboth in the fall/winter/spring seasons. (Rehoboth is a year-round beach town, and perfect for a relaxing weekend getaway.) We may even add some more listings for the Route 1 part of Rehoboth, though our hearts belong to downtown.
So, stay in touch, tell us what you think, and, most of all, have a great time in Rehoboth!
With great fanfare AND hoopla, Rick and I drew ten email addresses from our blog’s subscriber list to receive free “Rehoboth in My Pocket” downloads! And then I emailed the winners to say congrats. Now what do we do with all this confetti?
Thanks for entering! Stay tuned for more SWAG in May!
Rehoboth in My Pocket (a travel guide) App is officially LAUNCHED! Woo hoo! Download the App onto your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad here.
To help kick things off, we’re giving away 10 free downloads - just join our “SWAG” and/or blog posts email list by next Friday (April 16) – we’ll pick 10 winners at random from those who are signed up! And THANKS for all the encouragement over the past few months – we are EX-CIT-ED!
Now we begin adding MORE reviews, more activies, more fun to the App – and we’d love to hear what YOU think. What have we missed? Join the Rehoboth in My Pocket Facebook group and let us know – we’ve set up some Discussion Boards to gather your opinions.
Let’s get this party started!
(Oh, and if you are a wine lover, or just like to drive around in the beautiful Virginia countryside and visit wineries, you may want to check out our App-in-development: Virginia Wine in My Pocket. Rick’s working on some VERY cool stuff for the website, and we expect the App to launch in late May!)
View "We Are (A)live! Rehoboth in My Pocket App Is Launched!" on its own page.
Hellooooo out there! I’m Nancy of the Rick & Nancy duo behind Rehoboth in My Pocket – the iPhone app and this web site.
I’ve got a lot to tell you – about the tons of support we’re getting from Rehoboth Beach Main Street and business owners, and about our plans for this site and for the iPhone app, and how we hope they bring out more visitors who love this place as much as we do.
But all that can wait. With Valentine’s Day just hours away, I think the place to start is by sharing some of the love. Here are a handful of things we heart the most about our favorite beach town.
- You don’t have to dial the area code to make a call.
- There are more than 30 restaurants within a 10 minute walk from our house.
- Walking the town. You actually CAN walk the town.
- The Christmas parade is held on a Monday (a true locals event) and includes backhoes with wreaths in their buckets and city trucks lit up like Christmas trees, driven by guys with Santa hats and big smiles.
- Some wonderful person puts up Christmas trees on the lakes! The lakes! Instant romance!
- Nice people, attractive homes, attractive streets, nice sidewalks.
- You can count the number of chain stores downtown on one hand.
- The beach! (And pizza and drinks nearby!)
- If you walk into S&S Liquors and ask Kurt and Tamasin to recommend a bottle of French red for less than $10, they won’t roll their eyes.
- The bike trail to Lewes.
- Café con leche at Café a Go Go.
- The one-mile boardwalk. When you’ve walked it both ways, you feel like you’ve accomplished something.
- Riding bikes back in Henlopen Acres and The Pines. It’s like you’ve fallen into New England.
- Did we mention nice people? Friendly stores?
- Walking down the middle of the street on a chilly December night, catching glimpses of our neighbors reading in their living rooms, knowing we have a fireplace at home, a movie to watch, and a good bottle of cheap red wine.
Rick sums up his appreciation thusly: “Nancy is there, and our workaday lives and worries are not.” Nancy approves.
What are some of your favorite things?
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