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News For Foodies 10.29.15

Get your Met's regalia on and steal on down to Stuart’s Seafood shop in Amagansett. Customers who say “Let’s Go Mets” with their Mets gear on will receive a 10-percent discount on their purchase.

Oct 29, 2015
News for Foodies 10.22.15

The chef, Anand Sastry of the Highway Restaurant presents Thai night on Thursdays starting next week. A Sicilian “carnival” Halloween celebration will be held at Osteria Salina in Wainscott on Oct. 31.

Oct 22, 2015
Seattle’s Pike Place Market is not just for seafood, it also has a great bounty of fresh fungi. Seasons by the Sea: Four Days in Seattle

“Why Seattle?” asked so many people when I told them I was whisking my son away for a long weekend recently. “Well,” I’d explain, “I was born in Northern California but have never been to the Pacific Northwest.” But the real answer is that it’s one of the few places my offspring was willing to explore with his old, old, uncool mom.

Oct 22, 2015
News For Foodies 10.15.15

There is a theater and dining deal at the 1770 House in East Hampton. Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater lab has resumed a free series of staged readings and the 1770 House will offer a pre-theater twocourse prix fixe for $27 on reading nights.

Oct 15, 2015
Ethel Henn and her husband, Bob, gathered in their kitchen for a picture with their cookbook. Tradition Revived in a Community Cookbook

At a time when many of us are wannabe chefs, when the TV is as apt to be turned to the Food Network as to ESPN, one woman in Springs has revived a veritable tradition: She has gathered recipes from family and friends and created a modest community cookbook.

Oct 15, 2015
Marco Barilla is the executive chef and Sarah Bellissimo is the general manager at Via del Mare. East End Eats: Newcomer in Water Mill

Our approach to Via del Mare in Water Mill felt eerie. The curtains were drawn, there were no cars in the parking lot, and it was pitch black inside. I started rehearsing an apology to my editor for not having a review for this week’s issue. It’s happened before, usually at places like Philippe that are only open for vampire weekenders and don’t stay open for people who dine and enjoy food in the evening.

Oct 8, 2015
News for Foodies 10.08.15

New menu selections at Babette’s restaurant in East Hampton will feature healthy and organic meals with vegetarian and vegan choices. Forage for wild food with Chandra Elmendorf in the woods near Trout Pond in Noyac.

Oct 8, 2015
Sant Ambroeus plays different roles throughout the day, from coffee in the morning to lunch and dinner, and gelato afterward. East End Eats: Refined Dining at Sant Ambroeus

Sant Ambroeus

30 Main Street Southampton

631-283-1233

Thursday through Monday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.

The village of Southampton feels different. The streets are wider, the houses are bigger, the inhabitants smooth and groomed. The shops on Main Street are predictably peppered with high-end real estate offices that have glowing, interactive features in the windows. Press a button and stare at your Water Mill McMansion pipe dream. There are still pockets of charm, the Village Cheese Shop, Silvers, and the Japanese antique store that never seems to be open.

Sep 29, 2015
News for Foodies 10.01.15

Lovers of both barbecue and football might want to earmark Townline BBQ in Sagaponack as well as the Smokin’ Wolf barbecue takeout shop in East Hampton as places to go for football watching victuals.

Sep 29, 2015
News For Foodies: 09.24.15

Ryan Murphy, a native of Ireland, is the new chef at the Topping Rose House. His new menu reflects his Irish roots and a French culinary influence. He uses seasonal produce, much of which is grown on the Topping Rose site.

Sep 24, 2015
Seasons by the Sea: Online Recipes: Gack!

How does Spam tonkatsu sound to you? Would you like to try a tasty paleo breakfast burrito with ham and not much else? Let’s find a recipe for Cowboy Casserole; this is a mixture of Tater Tots, canned soup, canned vegetables, and cheeeeeese. Christmas will be upon us before you know it, so why not perfect your Christmas crack now, your dentist will thank you! This is a mixture of Saltine crackers, lotsa sugar, a cup of butter, and melted chocolate.

Sep 22, 2015
News For Foodies: 09.17.15

Rowdy Hall kicks off its Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. featuring an outdoor German beer garden in the restaurant courtyard. Jeremy Blutstein, the East by Northeast restaurant’s chef will prepare a menu to complement wines by Macari Vineyards next Thursday.

Sep 17, 2015
Making cauliflower “pizza crust” creates quite a mess. Seasons by the Sea: Cauliflower Power!

Cauliflower is one of Long Island’s best-known crops. Our climate, with cool evenings and moist air, is perfect for growing firm, sweet, Brassica oleracea var. botrytis.

Sep 17, 2015
News For Foodies: 09.10.15

The top tomatoes from the taste-off at Quail Hill Farm will be for sale at the Amagansett Farmers Market for the rest of the season. Next Wednesday is Mexican Independence Day and La Fondita in Amagansett will celebrate with specials: chiles en nogada, a traditional Independence Day dish, and pozole rojo.

Sep 10, 2015
Beach plums, now in abundance, make great jams, chutneys, and crostatas, and can even be infused into vodka. Seasons by the Sea: Late Summer Dessert Stars

The calendar may say it’s the end of summer, but it’s really not. We still have a good four to six weeks of glorious weather, warm ocean and bays, fewer tourists, and plenty of fruits and vegetables still growing.

Sep 10, 2015
The 1770 House in East Hampton has several dining options, indoors or outdoors, and “two adorable smiling hostesses” — Ingrid Pizarro and Katherine Sequero. East End Eats: Flawless and Innovative at 1770

The first time I dined at the 1770 House it had only been open a few weeks. It wasn’t for a review; it was for a raucous birthday dinner. We were dressed to the nines, the gents wore ties, and we tried to behave ourselves, but we were noisy and happy and delighted to be in this marvelous new restaurant.

Sep 3, 2015
News For Foodies: 09.03.15

The Wolffer Estate winery in Sagaponack produced Finca Wolffer Rosé in Argentina this year. The wine will be featured at an Argentinian Summer Send-Off dinner on Sunday at the Crow’s Nest in Montauk.

Sep 3, 2015
In addition to opening the Sea Bean food truck, Shawn and Courtney Christman were married last year and have a baby on the way. The Sea Bean Is on the Road

It’s been quite the year for Shawn Christman and Courtney Fruin Christman. Not only did they open the Sea Bean, a gourmet food truck that does catering and sells from Montauk’s Lions Field and other prime spots, but they got married on June 6 and are expecting the birth of their first child in a few weeks.

Sep 3, 2015
Cletus McKeown presides over the bar and much more as the owner of North Sea Tavern and Raw’r Bar. East End Eats: A New Winner in North Sea

Sometimes reviewing restaurants can be a bore and a chore. You have no idea how many expensive, mediocre, noisy evenings I have spent with friends trying “locally sourced” this, “artisanal” that, “farm to table” flotsam, and “muddled shrub with cranberry spheres” jetsam. North Sea Tavern and Raw’r Bar, I am pleased to report, is a new restaurant that doesn’t just talk the talk, it walks the walk.

Aug 27, 2015
Quail Hill Farm held its annual benefit dinner, At the Common Table‚ in its orchard on Sunday. Guests sat at one long undulating table that stretched for yards and dined on offerings from Almond’s Jason Weiner, Nick and Toni’s Joe Realmuto, The Star’s Laura Donnelly, and many others who used the farm’s produce as the basis for their courses. News For Foodies: 08.27.15

Don't miss the weekly Sunday barbecue at Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. It starts at 6 p.m. and features wine pairings by Wolffer Estate Vineyards.

Aug 27, 2015
The Backyard restaurant at Solé East in Montauk was empty because everyone wanted to eat by the pool. East End Eats: Was It Late-Season Ennui?

Walk through an allée of bamboo and you reach the Backyard restaurant, which, on the evening of our visit, remained empty the entire time, not because there were no customers, but because everyone chose to dine outside by the pool. The restaurant itself is plain and simple, white with white director’s chairs.

Aug 20, 2015
Kathleen Masters, right,  and Kim Donahue New Take on an Old Favorite

Customers expecting overflowing bins of fresh produce or deli cases bursting with prepared foods might be confused upon entering the new Amagansett Farmers Market, which the Amagansett Food Institute reopened on Aug. 1.

Aug 20, 2015
News For Foodies: 08.20.15

The Lucy’s Whey stand at the Amagansett Farmers Market is beinf run by Lucy Kazickas, an Amagansett resident and founder of Lucy’s Whey, a cheese shop with a home base at Manhattan’s Chelsea Market. Harvest your own sea salt at a workshop in Southampton on Aug. 29, led by Michele Martuscello, the founder of Shelly Sells Sea Salt.

Aug 20, 2015
News For Foodies: 08.13.15

Visit five local farms and six private gardens with Guild Hall's “garden to table” tour. The tour will be part of its Garden as Art event on Aug. 22.

Aug 13, 2015
Southern food from a century ago, served in a spacious house in Sag Harbor, reminded diners of the hard lives of freed slave families farming their own land in Virginia. Seasons by the Sea: With Love From Edna Lewis

It began in middle school. Every morning, along with Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin, and a variety of other books scattered around, under, and in his bed, I would find my copy of Edna Lewis’s “The Taste of Country Cooking.”

Aug 13, 2015
Wolffer Kitchen’s ambitious menu and industrial-chic decor made The Star’s food writer grateful to live in Sag Harbor. East End Eats: A Creative New Venture in Wolffer Kitchen

This space next to Sen in Sag Harbor has changed cuisines and decor quite a bit over the last few years. Phao was Thai, I think there was an Indian restaurant briefly, and there was the Cuddy, a gastro pub. Now it is Wolffer Kitchen, the first restaurant on Long Island connected to a winery.

Aug 6, 2015
News For Foodies: 08.06.15

They are rolling! A food truck derby will be held at the Hayground School on Friday, Aug. 14. The Harbor Market and Kitchen in Sag Harbor is now open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., serving everything from egg dishes, pastry, and espresso to sandwiches, tacos, lobster rolls, and wood-oven pizzas.

Aug 6, 2015
News For Foodies: 07.30.15

For local food get down to the farmers market building on Main Street in Amagansett to see the new outlet run by the Amagansett Food Institute. Karen Lee will present a cooking class on Sunday focusing on Chinese dishes, her specialty, at a private residence in Amagansett. Those interested can register online at karenleecooking.com.

Jul 30, 2015
A cold pasta salad with corn, tomato, croutons, and cheese is portable and delicious. Seasons by the Sea: Life Is a Picnic

This is the time of year when we want to spend as much time as possible outdoors on the water, at the beach, in a park. So naturally we want to bring along foods that are easy to transport, are tasty and stay fresh, and, most important, remain safe.

Jul 30, 2015
The Buck What! booth at the Springs Farmers Market, run by Leeann and Mark Rybakov, sells healthy bars and snacks featuring buckwheat. Buckwhat! Offers New Take

Visitors to the Springs Farmers Market this summer may have encountered a couple of new and smiling faces — the friendly couple at the Buckwhat! booth, selling a new line of tasty bars and noshes made with buckwheat, dates, and other healthy ingredients.

Jul 23, 2015