Delaware landmark restaurant, closed since 2018, will be demolished

A customer hasn’t walked through the doors of the old ChesDel Restaurant off Route 13 (Du Pont Parkway) in more than seven years.

Weeds snake up the side of the abandoned building, and more choke the parking lot.

Some windows are boarded shut, and ceilings and walls are covered in mold. Graffiti tags blanket one side of the structure near the Delaware Route 1 toll plaza, south of the St. Georges Bridge, and stones are ready to fall off another side.