IT is quite a claim “Best seafood restaurant in town” but d’ocean is obviously not shy about it.

I had passed the restaurant a few times, wondering always why the quirky name. “D’” seems like an affectation. But it always put me in mind of two favorite pieces of poetry of mine, one by Ruper Brooke, “There curves and glimmers outwards to the unknown/The old, unquiet ocean”, the other by Rudyard Kipling, “Who hath desired the sea