Bethune Grill

Chicken wings restaurant, Restaurant in Daytona Beach, FL

Address

731 Dr Mary McLeod Bethune Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL, 32114

Phone

(386) 248-0777

Website

bethunegrill.com

About Bethune Grill

Bethune Grill has anchored the corner of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard since 1997, and the name is no accident — it sits on a street honoring the educator who founded Bethune-Cookman University just blocks away. This is a Black-owned Daytona Beach institution, recognized as such by Black-owned business directories including EatOkra and Black Biz Volusia, and the kitchen has spent nearly three decades building a reputation that outlasts trends. Ask anyone in the Greater Daytona Beach Area what the city is known for and you'll hear the same answer: the Beach, the Races, and Bethune Grill's honey wings. That's not marketing copy — it's a line locals have repeated for years because it's true. The wings arrive glazed and sticky-sweet, the kind of dish regulars order without opening the menu, but the kitchen doesn't stop there. Full plates of Southern comfort food come out alongside a tea selection that gets its own mentions in reviews, a small detail that says a lot about how much care goes into everything on the table. The dining room serves lunch and dinner crowds who come alone, in pairs, or as extended family groups celebrating something worth celebrating, and the catering arm carries that same food out to weddings, repasts, and community gatherings across the area. What makes Bethune Grill matter isn't just the food, though the food matters plenty — it's the continuity. In a beach town that reinvents its restaurant scene every tourist season, this kitchen on Bethune Boulevard has stayed put, stayed Black-owned, and stayed busy. That's its own kind of history, cooked fresh daily.

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