I wanted to love this place so bad, but the pizza literally can't hold up to the toppings. The flavors are there, the toppings are high quality, but the pizza comes out of the oven a soggy mess. I have a feeling they're not getting their wood burning oven to a high enough temperature to really crisp the bottom of the crust, but I'll leave that for them to figure out.
They have a nice location in downtown Bethesda and the inside is cute. The front wall opens up to give it an airy feeling and extend the outdoor dining to the inside a little. There aren't a ton of places where you can eat outside, so the more the merrier.
What we've got here is a pesto pizza on the left, drizzled with a gallon of olive oil, much of which you can make out soaking the cardboard box in the upper left corner... We did take out, so maybe it would have stayed in the middle if we ate at the restaurant, but really, does it need that much olive oil? I don't think so. The flavors were there, but the overabundance of olive oil and the soggy crust under the toppings were a deal breaker.
On the right was a delicious roasted eggplant and goat cheese pizza, again with the toppings soaking right through crust. In the end it was a dissapointment.
I hope they can get their pizzas fixed, because they could have a great place here. I'll be back when I hear they're more on track.
Pizzeria Da Marco
8008 Woodmont Avenue,
8008 Woodmont Avenue,
Bethesda, MD
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