Comings & Goings: French Bistro to Sconset Square

Le Penguin, a French bistro, will open in August at 15 Myrtle Ave. in Sconset Square in the space formerly occupied by Blue Lemon, which closed in April after 13 years (see WestportNow March 14, 2016.)  According to office manager Leslie Aguirre, the owners, veteran restaurateurs Antoine Blech and Anshu Vidyarthi, also own two other restaurants –- the highly acclaimed Le Penguin, 61 Lewis St., Greenwich, and Le Fat Poodle, 20 Arcadia Road, Old Greenwich. Blech’s career has taken him from Spago and L’Orangerie in Los Angeles, and Le Bec Fin in Philadelphia to Le Bilboquet, Le Comptoir, Le Colonial, and Orienta in New York. He also co-owned Opia in Manhattan. Vidyarthi has more than 20 years of restaurant and customer service knowledge, becoming well known to Fairfield County patrons as the director of operations of l’escale restaurant bar in Greenwich. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com