Comments on: Bis, Marcel's, and DC Coast requested

Someone wrote:

#My wife and I are coming in from Florida next week for 2 nights and are
#considering the following restaurants:  Bis, Marcel's, and DC Coast.  Any
#comments would be appreciated.

Haven't been there, but reviews and word on the groups is that DC Coast has excellent seafood.  I hear Bis is very good, but uneven.

Elliott

  Someone wrote:
> My wife and I are coming in from Florida next week for 2 nights and are
> considering the following restaurants:  Bis, Marcel's, and DC Coast.  Any
> comments would be appreciated.
>
> John
>

My wife and I have had our past 3 anniversary dinners at DC Coast and they have been consistently excellent. Make your reservations early, though because it is very popular. I highly recommend the whole fried sea bass and the tower crabcake. If you go on a Friday or Saturday night, there will be a lot of noise spilling over from the bar from the cellphone-and-martini set. You may want to try for a balcony table. -- ===================== Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour... Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I ate at DC Coast this Sat.  It was excellent.  It actually exceeded my expectations.  What I had or tasted that was good:  Chinese smoked lobster, tuna tartare in coconut milk and passion fruit juice, lobster bisque, asparagus soup, dry pack scallops with lobster & truffled gnocchi, vanilla rubbed tuna, sides of hericot vert and cashews and truffled mashed potato.  My guests seemed satisfied with the other dishes I didn't taste.  We had a bottle of the Coppola chardonnay, which was a good value.  Our service was excellent.

BTW, I also ate Fri. at Equinox on lower Connecticut.  It has been open for almost a year.  It was also excellent.  It features farm fresh seasonal ingredients.  Very good cooking.  Good service.