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W
ildwood Crest has upped its restaurant game. Te
recently reopened Two Mile Restaurant and Bar has
given me another reason to cross the Middle Torofare
Bridge to try new restaurants. Its also made me learn the
real name of the toll bridge.
Friends and I visited the waterside restaurant this spring,
shortly after it opened for its second season. Id made
reservations with the hostess earlier in the day, so I wasnt
pleased when we arrived and were told that
the restaurant doesnt take reservations except
on certain holidays.
It wasnt a holiday that day but Liz, our
hostess, made us feel like we were on
holiday when she asked us to wait, and,
moments later, escorted us to a choice
booth overlooking the sound in the nearly
full restaurant.
Our waitress, Lilly, kept the party going.
Despite having been on the job for less than
fve weeks, she was funny, knowledgeable,
and extremely responsive to our many
questions and requests. Her customer-service
skills were those of a seasoned veteran.
Our group of three shared two appetizers:
the Crab Attack Fries and Nutella Curry
Satay. We ordered the fries, in part, because
we liked the name, but we fnished them
because they were really good. Seasoned with
Old Bay (to which we added even more),
the fries came nacho-style, topped with
lump crab meat, Cheddar Jack cheese, sour
cream and bacon. Te Nutella Curry Satay
featured four skewers of seared chicken,
served with a slightly sweet dipping sauce
made with Nutella, curry spice, coconut
milk and cashews. Personally, I would have
preferred the dip to be less sweet and spicier
and nuttier.
Knowing that my friends had the seafood
side of the menu covered, I opted for land
food; specifcally, the Stufed Chicken,
which was flled with prosciutto, pesto and
smoked mozzarella, then coated with herbs,
Asiago cheese and breadcrumbs. I substituted
mashed sweet potatoes for mashed white
potatoes, and had the chef s vegetable,
which was asparagus. Overall, my meal was
excellent, but Id have liked it even more if
the chicken had been a little less fried.
One friend ordered the Broiled Seafood
Combination, which we later learned is the
most popular item on the menu. His combo
consisted of shrimp, scallops, founder, a crab
cake and a stufed clam, served with mashed
potatoes and asparagus. Te shrimp, scallops
and fsh were nicely dry-grilled, he reported,
and the founder, seasoned with Old Bay, was
very good.
My other companion ordered the Orange
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featuring jumbo shrimp in orange
vodka butter, served with coconut rice
and asparagus. She was pleased with
her selection. Her shrimp, a generous
portion of seven, were frm, favorful
and prepared the way she liked them:
not breaded, but steamed and sauted.
She also praised the sauce as good-
spicy and good-not-creamy.
Two Mile Restaurant, and its sister
restaurant next door, Te Crab
House, are the latest ventures of the
Hansen family, who also own H
& H Seafood and Camp Kayaks, a
rental-and-touring business. Both
reprise earlier seafood restaurants at
Two Mile Landing-Te Two Mile
Inn and Crab House-that closed
in 2007. Te Hansens (father Blair,
his son, Jasen, and daughter, Rachel),
ultimately bought the 200-acre
property in 2012, and gutted much of
the original structures. Tey opened
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in 2012, and the upscale Two Mile
Restaurant and Bar in 2013.
Blair and Jasen continue to run
the commercial-fshing-and-
wholesale side of the business
-both are commercial fshermen-
and Rachel operates the restaurants
and kayak company. Her husband,
Ross Morrell, is the chef at
the restaurants.
Rachel, a former seventh-grade
science teacher at a local middle
school, was surprised by the
volume of business the frst of the
two restaurants generated when
it opened. We went from a fsh
market with 10 picnic tables to a
restaurant serving thousands of
people, she said. We served 1,400
meals the frst weekend we opened.
It was crazy.
With the sunset views that are
unique to South Jersey and 500 feet
of waterfront, Two Mile Landings
two restaurants promise to get a
little crazier this summer-in the
best possible way, of course. ~ LM

Two Mile Restaurant and Bar is
located at Fish Dock Road o Ocean
Drive in Wildwood Crest. Te
restaurant is open daily from 4 to
10pm in season. Call 609-522-1341
for additional information.
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