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News for Foodies 12.17.20

Thu, 12/17/2020 - 07:57
Sybille van Kempen in 2019 at her shop.
Laura Donnelly

Lunch Special
Ed's Lobster Bar in Sag Harbor is offering a $15.95 takeout lunch package on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 11:30 to 3. The meal includes a choice of salad or New England clam chowder, a burger, half-chicken sandwich, or half-tuna sandwich, and an apple. They are also offering two pizzas, one plain and one white clam and garlic pie, for $20 at lunch. Patrons can call ahead or place orders online at the restaurant's website. 

Hot Off the Press
Sybille van Kempen, the owner of Loaves and Fishes Food Store in Sagaponack, has written a series of cookbooks with with Licia Kassim Householder, a chef, featuring dishes made from ingredients from local farms. The books have been released in seasonal trios, and the winter series will go on sale on Wednesday on the store's website. The cost is $50.

Tomato Tasters Rate 2026 Crop

The annual Great Tomato Taste-Off at Quail Hill Farm brought some 100 tasters to the property to taste and rate 44 varieties at their seasonal peak.

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News for Foodies 09.03.26

Wolffer Estate Vineyard releases its first Summer in the Bottle Rosé Zero, a rosé with zero-percent alcohol, Jason Weiner is named featured chef at Outstanding in the Field, and there’s a new chef at Elaia Estiatorio.

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Florence Fabricant Trades Places

For the first time in 15 years, Florence Fabricant, the prominent food and wine writer, will be the guest, not the host, of Guild Hall's Stirring the Pot series of culinary conversations.

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News for Foodies 08.27.26

Montauk’s Naturally Good Foods and Cafe is now open for dinner on Fridays from 5 to 8, while East Hampton’s Highway restaurant and bar will close for good after dinner service on Sept. 7.

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