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Ocean 211
211 Summer Street
Stamford
203-973-0494

By NANCY AND RICHARD WOODWORTH

Best Restaurants of New England

Web Published: Jan. 2005

New owner Robert Dunn took over this stellar seafood restaurant founded by Mark Abrahamson, former general manager of New York's Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant, and his wife Maureen. The seafood is fresh and sometimes exotic, and the two-story setting is charming, from the bronze fish sculptures hanging in the main-floor lounge to the larger upstairs dining room curtained in white, with wood floors, plants and a refreshingly homey feeling. The food is hardly homey, unless home produces a dish like wild white salmon with muscat balsamic syrup, three-olive oyster salad and aged gouda twists. Other entrées could be monkfish roasted with manilla clams in a saffron broth, soft-shell crabs with miso rice and roasted pineapple, and cobia with herbed shrimp sauce and sundried tomato polenta. Roasted duck breast with strawberry-chambord sauce and New York strip steak with french fries were the only non-seafood items on a recent menu. Start your seafood fix with popcorn shrimp with chipotle-tartar sauce, lobster egg rolls with mango sauce and pea shoot salad, or oysters on the half shell.

Finish with cheesecake with berry compote or chocolate-hazelnut pâté with peanut sauce. The wine list has earned Wine Spectator awards every year since the restaurant opened in 1998.

This content was updated in January 2005 from original text from Best Restaurants of New England, by Nancy and Richard Woodworth, copyright 2002, published by Wood Pond Press.

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Hours: "Lite Bites" Sun., 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Lunch Mon.-Fri., noon-2:30 p.m. Dinner Mon.-Thu., 5:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 5:30 p.m.-11 p.m.

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Cuisine Seafood Meals Served Lunch, Dinner Payment Method American Express, Visa, MasterCard Price Range Very Expensive Reservations Recommended Services Private Parties, Carry Out Spirits Full Bar Website http://www.ocean211.com/about.htm Wheelchair Access Yes