Frommer's Review
For terrific fish in a swank nautical setting, it's tough to beat the new
riverside restaurant at the Watermark Hotel. Except for the oyster bar that
centers the dining room, the marine touches are more subliminal than overt:
sea-blue table settings, hardwood floors, smooth glass surfaces, sleek,
vaguely boat-shaped water pitchers. But once you tuck into the "catches" of
the day, you'll have no doubt about this restaurant's deep devotion to
things Piscean.
The creamy smooth cool asparagus soup with a mound of crab at the bottom
was one of the best things I've tasted, ever. The oyster sampler, the seared
rare tuna crusted with coriander and fennel seed . . . nothing disappointed.
The only thing a bit off was the inexperienced, obsequious ("excellent
choice, ma'am") staff. But that was a minor glitch; all the choices were, in
fact, excellent. Note: Meat eaters and even vegetarians won't
go hungry here -- but they won't find a vast sea of selections, either.
