We like Robert Wiedmaier's Brasserie Beck and Marcel's so wanted to try this new restaurant where he abandons the butter and cream and starch of his Franco-Belgian cuisine in favor of the oil and vegetables of Mediterranean cooking.
It is a relatively small place located improbably in the Wildwood strip mall on Old Georgetown Rd. The decor is pleasant and cozy and you could forget where you were if you weren't, as we were, sitting right at the window with a view of the parking lot.
The food, however, was quite good -- high quality, perfectly prepared and very tasty. We started off with drinks to celebrate Andrea's new car. I had the gin-based Corpse Reviver #2 and Andrea had the Wildwood's New Fashioned. Both were refreshing, generous drinks that commanded correspondingly generous prices ($15).
Bread was an oven-toasted, olive oil-flavored Italian style white served with a tuna rillettes that was a great way to whet your appetite. We split the asparagus salad, which both white and green asparagus with frisee and radish, all very fresh and refreshing. I had the pan-seared sea bream with ratatouille and Andrea had the salmon with quinoa and fennel and we were both very happy. The dishes were indeed light and Mediterranean.
Decor, like the food, was a sort of Italian-Spanish fusion, very pleasant, which made you yearn, however, for an outdoor patio, real trees and balmy sea air instead of Montgomery County 'burbs.
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