Brian Halweil of Edible Communities and editor of Edible East End checks in with great meal ideas in East Hampton, New York. You know it’s February when Nick & Toni’s on North Main Street in East Hampton is serving $5 pizzas. But that’s not all. This forerunner of haute barnyard on the East End, with its big veggie garden in the back and its stable of celebrity clients in the front that challenges even the most connected to get a table in summer, has rolled out a number of customer-generating innovations this slow season. A friend recently returned from pizza night with his two sons covered in dust and proudly toting one slice of each of their pizzas that they...
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Editor's note: Jenni Ferrari-Adler is guest-blogging on Serious Eats this week about her vacation in East Hampton, New York. Follow along: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Whenever I dine in one of the newer restaurants out here, I think of all the vanished restaurants that once inhabited the same space. Saracen used to be Sapore di Mare which used to be Charlotte’s Pond. The Laundry is now The Lodge, and the original Laundry has moved toward Amagansett. Wednesday night, my mother and J. and I go to The Lodge at 9 p.m. without a reservation. Despite it being August in the Hamptons, we’re seated immediately. Between the drizzly weather and the red-brick warmth of the dining room, we crave winter...
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Editor's note: Jenni Ferrari-Adler is guest-blogging on Serious Eats this week about her vacation in East Hampton, New York. Follow along: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday After the movie, still feeling a little burned by our meal at Wei Fun, J. and I head to Sam's Restaurant. Sam's is one of the few places that's been in the town of East Hampton for as long as I've been coming out, circa 1985, which is exactly what it looks like, and, better yet, sounds like. We go 12-inch, half-pepperoni, half-eggplant, garlic, and green olives. The eggplant ends up being breaded and fried, as in eggplant Parmesan, making me the fool who tried to be healthy and skip pepperoni only to eat...
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