You might remember that bouillabaisse, with the fennel-tomato-saffron broth you wanted to bathe in. Or perhaps it was the beef cheeks, meltingly tender yet just crisped, alongside peak-of-summer Roots Farm corn and more. Or the ricotta ravioli gussied up into summer elegance with charred Lane Farm strawberries.
Well, you don’t have to remember anymore. All of Chef Justin West’s deeply desired dishes from his former restaurant Julienne are coming back on Monday and Tuesday nights, when he turns his Wildwood Kitchen barbecue space into Brunoise, offering a new menu each week.
“I’m worried that the memory of Julienne rose to a great place in people’s heads,” confessed West, the Oregon-raised chef who ran the East Canon Perdido Street restaurant from 2008 to 2016. “I have to compete with the memory of myself.” So he decided not to return to full-scale fine dining but rather to offer refined dining, in which Wildwood will play the perfect pop-up host.