How to Book La Plage in Westport
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La Plage Westport — the Connecticut one, on the water at the Inn at Longshore — is where Fairfield County goes when it wants the Sound with its seafood tower. Frederic Kieffer’s kitchen books through OpenTable, closes Mondays and Tuesdays, and the $120 tower with the sunset is the whole assignment.
Compo Road’s Waterfront Answer
The address does the qualifying: 260 Compo Road South, on the grounds of the Inn at Longshore, lawn running to Long Island Sound. La Plage is coastal American with a French accent and a raw bar spine — upscale-casual done by Great Hospitality Group with chef Frederic Kieffer’s name on the kitchen. Our La Plage review places it exactly: not fine dining and not trying to be — the Sound’s best table manners, an hour from Manhattan.
Booking the Golden Hour
The channel. OpenTable, linked from laplagewestport.com, or (203) 684-6232. The calendar trap: closed Monday and Tuesday — the weekend-house crowd’s classic error. Dinner runs Wednesday through Sunday from 4pm (to 10 on Friday–Saturday); lunch Wednesday–Friday and weekend brunch hold the 12–2:30 window. The strategy. Summer weekend sunsets book out furthest — take the 5:30 table, drink on the lawn first, and let the Sound do the lighting. Terrace requests go in the booking notes, not the parking lot negotiation.
The Tower and the List
The La Plage seafood tower ($120) is the table’s organising event; beneath it, the menu argues both shores of the Atlantic: brandied lobster chowder ($22), the $42 lobster roll that answers the Connecticut-style question with butter, squid-ink linguine and clams ($36), a white clam pizza ($29) paying New Haven its respects, grilled lamb chops ($48) and a NY strip frites ($53) for the landlocked seat. Two courses and a coastal white lands $90–120 a head — Fairfield County arithmetic, fair for the postcode and the water.
The Westport Play
Book Friday 5:30, arrive at 5 for the lawn, order the tower and the clam pizza as the table’s bookends, and stay through the light. Brunch is the sleeper: the same water, half the fight. The town’s full table is in our Westport dining guide — The Whelk holds the oyster-purist end — and the anniversary list keeps a two-top here from May to September. The genre’s Mediterranean cousins in this guide: Casa Jondal and Gariful, for when the Sound isn’t sea enough.
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Related Reading
- Our full profile: La Plage review.
- The town: Westport dining guide and The Whelk.
- Waterfront siblings: Gariful, Hvar.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you book La Plage in Westport?
Through OpenTable, linked from laplagewestport.com, or on (203) 684-6232. Summer weekend sunset tables book furthest ahead; note the restaurant is closed Monday and Tuesday, and put terrace requests in the booking notes.
Which Westport is this?
Connecticut — 260 Compo Road South, at the Inn at Longshore on Long Island Sound, about an hour from Manhattan. Not the Irish Westport, and no relation to the Goan beach shack of the same name.
What should you order at La Plage?
The seafood tower ($120) as the table’s centrepiece, the brandied lobster chowder ($22) and the $42 butter lobster roll around it, with the white clam pizza ($29) as the New Haven-inflected wildcard. The squid-ink linguine and clams ($36) is the kitchen’s quiet best.
How much does dinner cost?
Mains $29–53, the tower $120 — a realistic $90–120 a head with wine. Upscale-casual waterfront pricing: fair for the Sound view and the postcode.
When is La Plage open?
Wednesday to Sunday: lunch Wed–Fri and brunch weekends 12–2:30, dinner from 4pm (until 10pm Friday–Saturday). Closed Monday and Tuesday — the most-missed fact in its reviews.