Gallery: Pearl Restaurant & Bar at Longshore

Views of the Pearl Restaurant and Bar, which opens Monday at 5 p.m. in space occupied for 19 years by the Splash Restaurant at the Inn at Longshore at Longshore Club Park in Westport. Steve O’Shea, a marketing representative for the new eatery, describes the restaurant as “sophisticated casual fine dining in a seasonal atmosphere serving delicious, healthy American cuisine.”  Greenwich-based designer Bilal Barakat said the restaurant seats 65 in the main dining room and enclosed, temperature-controlled porch,18 at the bar and additional seating on the patio beginning in the spring. Pearl is co-owned by Westport resident Marc Backon and Antonio Ninivaggi. Ninivaggi also owns Toto’ Mediterranean Restaurant, formerly called Osianna, 70 Reef Road, Fairfield. Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com