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De Marco is located on Collesville Rd in downtown Silver Spring (more or less across the street from the AFI). It used to be exclusively a deli/Italian gourmet shop but recently the renovated the shop and now have a small restaurant area. We've been meaning to check it out for a loooong time but given that it's next to RTC...well....ya know. We finally got around to trying them last night and I have to say that it was remarkably....boring. The service is attentive and casual. The atmosphere is neighbourhood romantic. It's obviously not high dining but the decor screams family home cooking. Unfortunately, the food doesn't measure up. I had a simple penne in tomato sauce with meatballs. Lisa had the special, which was fettucine with smoked mozzarela, pancetta, and hot peppers. Both of us though the dishes were lacking in flavour. I would have appreciated a touch of heat in the tomato sauce and certainly some browning of the meatballs (which looked like they were boiled as opposed to sauteed or roasted). The meal was preceeded by a simple salad drowned in balsamic and olive oil (which I was more than willing to forgive if the entrees had been good). Their reserve wines were so blah (tasted like they had been watered down) that we ended up running into RTC for a quick glass of good wine before our movie. The food wasn't bad - but it wasn't good. We'll give them another chance because I want a local family run business to succeed (people need to go someplace like that instead of Macaroni Grill). Hopefully they were just having a bad night.
