We can't decide which was better...the outstanding food or the exceptionally personalized service!? This is what I expected from the lovely reviews I've read. However, experiencing it all far exceeded our expectations ! Eve was our perfect server for the evening. Sweet, kind, professional and appropriate. We had an unexpected fire alarm during our 1st course. We were escorted to the veranda of the hotel to await the fire department's assessment. No harm, and no fire. After quite a time, Ocean House hotel staff welcomed us back to our seating at Coast, with champagne, & an appetizer of oysters, while the kitchen staff started up their food prep again. They couldn't be kinder to help remedy this interruption to our meal.~ The rest of the courses, prepared by Chef Adam''s team was truly the best meal we've ever eaten. Thank you to all the staff at Coast~ and we cannot wait to return for our next beautiful and tasty meal.
Martin
“Coast” is the premiere dining experience in this region, a stand-out out for its warm, attentive service and thoughtful execution. The waitstaff was friendly and knowledgeable without ever being intrusive, offering personal attention and clearly recognizing that we were celebrating a special occasion. That level of personal awareness set the tone for the entire experience. The menu is consistently updated, diverse, and impressively creative, ensuring that each visit is a unique, pleasurable experience!
Kacie
Enjoyable time dining here. The restaurant is a separate room inside of the Bistro restaurant so style and look is very similar just different menus. They made a great cappuccino!
Anne Marie
Overall a good experience. It was a birthday celebration. I had a mushroom dish on the vegetarian menu and one of the selections had way too much soy sauce.
Juliana
100% recommend for a special night out or celebration. The staff, atmosphere, and food was amazing. We went to celebrate a wedding anniversary and everything was perfect and magical. Highly recommend.
Tom Thurber
Coast features a 3 course fixed price menu with only one option for the main course (small fish portion or about 2 ounces of wagyu when we visited). None of the food was very good but we did enjoy the pumpkin cake desert. Service was ok but adding a 24% mandatory gratuity in addition to a line for tips is an obvious ploy to encourage double tipping. The total cost for our meals and one bottle of wine exceeded $500, a price point where we expected more. The dining area was overly bright and uncomfortably warm.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
MaryEllen
Coast's quietly elegant ambience, top-level attentive service, and panoramic ocean views make it a great special-occasion destination. And, unlike many restaurants that let great views excuse mediocre food, Coast's prix fixe menu gets top marks start to finish, including gluten-free adaptations where needed for one of us. Everything was beautifully prepared, with intriguing and delicious flavors and garnishes. The portions for each of the five courses were sized just right, so that we did not end up uncomfortably filled, just happily thrilled! I also highly recommend a wine pairing add-on that's available. Even though we "settled" for the less expensive of the pairing menus, every wine was perfectly matched to the food, and knowledgeably described by our server. All told, a memorable dining experience!
Karyn
We had an absolutely outstanding dinner experience at Coast this past weekend. The five course tasting menu was absolutely delicious, the service was impeccable, and we enjoyed every minute there. Thank you so much to the staff for recognizing the special anniversary we were celebrating and making us feel so welcome and honored.
Tess Giordano
Just wow. Went here for our anniversary and was absolutely blown away by the service, atmosphere and food. Go for a special occasion. Totally worth it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
William
Coast restaurant and Ocean House were an amazing experience! Way up in our top 5, include most of the exclusive top NYC restaurants (Per Se, Le Cirque, Le Benardin, Del Posto, Oceana, Daniel, Les Celebrites, and too many other to name). A great way to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary! Beside the amazing attention and level of service (with several Prix Fixe menu ingredient modifications due to food allergies), we were blown away by Chef's cuisine and presentations. The Bluefin Tuna starter was a pièce de résistance, only outdone by the White Chocolate Pumpkin dessert filled with White Chocolate Mousse! Complementing the restaurant, was the amazing Ocean House exterior entry, lobby and lounge. There was a wedding in progress on the broad lawn, just off the ocean. And the ocean view from our window-side table was incredible, with beautiful evening sunlit surf slowly giving way to a rising near Full Moon thru dinner. It really was a perfect day after antiquing in the New London area and next-door Stonington, CT. Our only regret was rushing to finish, in order to catch our ferry back to LI! Next time we'll overnight at Ocean House to get the full experience in a more relaxed pace... PS. Writing this while nibbling on the amazing take-away treat box we got at the end of our meal!
Great overall experience. Service was outstanding. Food was very very good and interesting.
Ravi Banerjee
Spectacular location. Great service & exceptional locally sourced food. $145 prix fixe but you get your money's worth! Outstanding wine list with many top notch and expensive wines but also a well curated selection of under $100 wines, a pleasant change from many restaurants with food of this quality. I'm not going every week, but I am going back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Bruce
Meal was five courses or so, but small portions so amount of food was good, not excessive. Everything was delicious. After all was done and bill was paid the server brought a plate with a few small sweet bites and said “we have one more thing we request you eat”. Love a server with a sense of humor.
Kimberly
We stayed at Ocean House for a long weekend and had dinner to celebrate our anniversary at Coast, located within the resort. Each course in this the pre-fixe menu was delicious. Coast uses the local harvest and seasonal seafood offerings to meld flavors for culinary decadence. I was very pleased with our dinner offerings which included tuna, crab, lobster, halibut, strip loin steak, and dessert. Having dined at many Michelin restaurants in the US and Europe, I thought the value of $145/person was reasonable for this culinary experience and the service was excellent.
Anthony
All expectations were exceeded. From the food to the personable service, everything was top tier. This was an absolutely exceptional experience that neither me nor my fierce will ever forget. Thank you all so much for the wonderful evening.
We can't decide which was better...the outstanding food or the exceptionally personalized service!? This is what I expected from the lovely reviews I've read. However, experiencing it all far exceeded our expectations ! Eve was our perfect server for the evening. Sweet, kind, professional and appropriate. We had an unexpected fire alarm during our 1st course. We were escorted to the veranda of the hotel to await the fire department's assessment. No harm, and no fire. After quite a time, Ocean House hotel staff welcomed us back to our seating at Coast, with champagne, & an appetizer of oysters, while the kitchen staff started up their food prep again. They couldn't be kinder to help remedy this interruption to our meal.~ The rest of the courses, prepared by Chef Adam''s team was truly the best meal we've ever eaten. Thank you to all the staff at Coast~ and we cannot wait to return for our next beautiful and tasty meal.
“Coast” is the premiere dining experience in this region, a stand-out out for its warm, attentive service and thoughtful execution. The waitstaff was friendly and knowledgeable without ever being intrusive, offering personal attention and clearly recognizing that we were celebrating a special occasion. That level of personal awareness set the tone for the entire experience. The menu is consistently updated, diverse, and impressively creative, ensuring that each visit is a unique, pleasurable experience!
Enjoyable time dining here. The restaurant is a separate room inside of the Bistro restaurant so style and look is very similar just different menus. They made a great cappuccino!
Overall a good experience. It was a birthday celebration. I had a mushroom dish on the vegetarian menu and one of the selections had way too much soy sauce.
100% recommend for a special night out or celebration. The staff, atmosphere, and food was amazing. We went to celebrate a wedding anniversary and everything was perfect and magical. Highly recommend.
Coast features a 3 course fixed price menu with only one option for the main course (small fish portion or about 2 ounces of wagyu when we visited). None of the food was very good but we did enjoy the pumpkin cake desert. Service was ok but adding a 24% mandatory gratuity in addition to a line for tips is an obvious ploy to encourage double tipping. The total cost for our meals and one bottle of wine exceeded $500, a price point where we expected more. The dining area was overly bright and uncomfortably warm.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 4
Coast's quietly elegant ambience, top-level attentive service, and panoramic ocean views make it a great special-occasion destination. And, unlike many restaurants that let great views excuse mediocre food, Coast's prix fixe menu gets top marks start to finish, including gluten-free adaptations where needed for one of us. Everything was beautifully prepared, with intriguing and delicious flavors and garnishes. The portions for each of the five courses were sized just right, so that we did not end up uncomfortably filled, just happily thrilled! I also highly recommend a wine pairing add-on that's available. Even though we "settled" for the less expensive of the pairing menus, every wine was perfectly matched to the food, and knowledgeably described by our server. All told, a memorable dining experience!
We had an absolutely outstanding dinner experience at Coast this past weekend. The five course tasting menu was absolutely delicious, the service was impeccable, and we enjoyed every minute there. Thank you so much to the staff for recognizing the special anniversary we were celebrating and making us feel so welcome and honored.
Just wow. Went here for our anniversary and was absolutely blown away by the service, atmosphere and food. Go for a special occasion. Totally worth it.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Coast restaurant and Ocean House were an amazing experience! Way up in our top 5, include most of the exclusive top NYC restaurants (Per Se, Le Cirque, Le Benardin, Del Posto, Oceana, Daniel, Les Celebrites, and too many other to name). A great way to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary! Beside the amazing attention and level of service (with several Prix Fixe menu ingredient modifications due to food allergies), we were blown away by Chef's cuisine and presentations. The Bluefin Tuna starter was a pièce de résistance, only outdone by the White Chocolate Pumpkin dessert filled with White Chocolate Mousse! Complementing the restaurant, was the amazing Ocean House exterior entry, lobby and lounge. There was a wedding in progress on the broad lawn, just off the ocean. And the ocean view from our window-side table was incredible, with beautiful evening sunlit surf slowly giving way to a rising near Full Moon thru dinner. It really was a perfect day after antiquing in the New London area and next-door Stonington, CT. Our only regret was rushing to finish, in order to catch our ferry back to LI! Next time we'll overnight at Ocean House to get the full experience in a more relaxed pace... PS. Writing this while nibbling on the amazing take-away treat box we got at the end of our meal!
Restaurantji Recommends
Great overall experience. Service was outstanding. Food was very very good and interesting.
Spectacular location. Great service & exceptional locally sourced food. $145 prix fixe but you get your money's worth! Outstanding wine list with many top notch and expensive wines but also a well curated selection of under $100 wines, a pleasant change from many restaurants with food of this quality. I'm not going every week, but I am going back!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Meal was five courses or so, but small portions so amount of food was good, not excessive. Everything was delicious. After all was done and bill was paid the server brought a plate with a few small sweet bites and said “we have one more thing we request you eat”. Love a server with a sense of humor.
We stayed at Ocean House for a long weekend and had dinner to celebrate our anniversary at Coast, located within the resort. Each course in this the pre-fixe menu was delicious. Coast uses the local harvest and seasonal seafood offerings to meld flavors for culinary decadence. I was very pleased with our dinner offerings which included tuna, crab, lobster, halibut, strip loin steak, and dessert. Having dined at many Michelin restaurants in the US and Europe, I thought the value of $145/person was reasonable for this culinary experience and the service was excellent.
All expectations were exceeded. From the food to the personable service, everything was top tier. This was an absolutely exceptional experience that neither me nor my fierce will ever forget. Thank you all so much for the wonderful evening.
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