Redwood Restaurant and Bar

This bar/restaurant is perfectly situated.
The food is good and they have a big selection of drinks.
The only drawback is the price of these drinks, too high in my opinion but maybe it's just D.C area...

I used to really like this place.
Regularly dined here with my family, but for a variety of reasons, had not been at this restaurant for about a year until our recent experience (this past Sunday November 15, 2004).
I have to say it was pretty awful.
The waiter was pretty marginal and, worse, our food was really poorly prepared or used bad ingredients.
And I'm not talking about 1 entree, but all 3 were pretty bad.
My wife hardly touched her fish and it did look terrible.
She said it was pretty inedible, not that anyone at the restaurant questioned why she only ate a couple of bites of her entree.
My daughter's pasta didn't look good and she said it was really marginal, and the steak in my rather oddly prepared steak salad was tough.
It's unfortunate, but we'll probably never go again.
Since the restaurant was mostly empty, I think we're not the first to recognize that something is going wrong here.

We went today for the Father's Day brunch buffet.
Food was generally okay, but overpriced at $30/person.
They had made-to order omlettes and a decent selection of hot and cold foods, which included smoked salmon and roast beef if you were upon the early arrivals.
They ran out of smoked salmon within about an hour of when the buffet opened, and the roast beef didn't look far behind.
We've eaten here other times and their outdoor seating area can't be beat, but I would definitely not come here again for the buffet.