Restaurant L'Ostal

$$$ • French

Hours:
22 Center St, Darien
(475) 328-9629

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4.5 (104)

Excellent down to every detail. What a find in Fairfield county! Right up there with Le Fat Poodle, Le Penguin and La Crémaillère but a much cozier understated atmosphere. Wine glasses were appropriate for the wine, the beef tartare was the perfect texture and the Pork Chop and Steelhead trout were cooled to perfection. Bravo! The Pannna Cotta was excellent! I wonder what they could do with creme brulee???

Great food - escargot, foie gras, duck confit. They should not call the desert “olive oil cake” - maybe that's what it IS, but the name is very off putting. When it came, it was a delicious cake with a nice crunchy shell, and tasted nothing of olives, but I almost didn't order it because of the name. -who wants to associate olive oil with dessert! Wife had a salad - which I wanted as soon as I saw it, and a Black Sea bass. So very good. Ambiance was fine, but the food was...read full review

The food was excellent! The foe gras and duck were outstanding. We were surprised when the champagne we ordered ($33/glass) came to the table, that the restaurant doesn't have champagne glasses. We were served champagne in wine glasses. While our waiter was nice, he really didn't go over the menu with us; he just wanted to take our order. We also had to flag him down a couple of times. I was expecting a better experience service wise.

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Hours

Monday Closed
Tuesday 5 - 9PM
Wednesday 5 - 9PM
Thursday 5 - 9PM
Friday 5 - 10PM
Saturday 5 - 10PM
Sunday Closed
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