BY KAREN DEUTSCH • PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGEL TUCKER
PESCADOU
1 Bellevue Ave., Newport, 848-4805, pescadou. com
Open for dinner seven days a week( as well as breakfast and lunch). Reservations recommended. Wheelchair accessible. Valet parking.
CUISINE Coastal resort.
CAPACITY Seventy-five in the main dining room.
VIBE Modern socialite.
PRICES Appetizers: $ 6 –$ 24($ 85 for caviar service); entrees: $ 25 –$ 45; dessert: $ 6 –$ 16.
KAREN’ S PICKS Cocktails, barbajuans, bouillabaisse.
influence extending from Marseille all the way to Italy. The space itself is decidedly feminine and nature bound. Pink and grassy-greens dominate, framed by romantic, tree-lined murals, smoky mirrors and a wooden floor in a kaleidoscope pattern.
At the culinary helm of this vision is chef Will Rietzel, who spent time at both Giusto and Ocean House’ s Coast, both restaurants, like Pescadou, that split their time between locals and a hefty tourist crowd.
It is hard to separate the restaurant itself from the buzz of hotel life, particularly in the evenings. The host stand is in the lobby proper and you enter the dining room by walking through a sleek and lively bar packed with patrons. Beyond the Palm Beach-hued Pescadou sits an overflow dining room, and all of these rooms are joined by an open corridor.
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