Save your calories for Shelter Island this summer. Pound for pound, the small village suspended in the waters between Greenport and Sag Harbor packs just as much culinary punch as its mainland counterparts on the North Fork and the Hamptons.
Top-notch chefs preparing fresh seafood and farm-to-table fare have taken the dining scene to new heights with seemingly more options to choose from than any season before. (more…)
Hop the ferry to The Rock. (Credit: Matt Rohde)
Looking for something to do on Shelter Island this spring? (more…)
A rendering of the future Harwood on Hudson in Manhattan. (Courtesy photo)
The owners of the ever-popular Vine Street Café on Shelter Island are opening a new restaurant, Harwood on Hudson, in the West Village. (more…)
Blue Canoe Oyster Bar & Grill (Credit: Vera Chinese)
Greenport has one less seafood restaurant as Blue Canoe Oyster Bar & Grill will not reopen for 2016.
The popular Third Street seafood eatery quietly announced they were closed for good via their Facebook page on April 18. (more…)
(Cyndi Murray photo)
Start planning: Mom’s special day isn’t that far away. Here are some places to take her for a Mother’s Day brunch on the North Fork and Shelter Island. The holiday is set for May 8 this year. (more…)
(Credit: Barbaraellen Koch)
The weather may be stuck in February mode, but spring is very much in sight on both the North Fork and Shelter Island as restaurants and shops continue to reopen for the season.
Vine Street Café placed third for its mushroom bolognese sauce with penne pasta, tomato, parmesan and parsley. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)
Touch of Venice made a mushroom crostini with maitake, shiitake, oyster mushrooms, wild arugula, ricotta and Parmigiano-Reggiano. Grana of Jamesport made a bruschetta with roasted oyster mushroom, toasted walnut pesto and mushroom aioli dish.
While Shelter Island’s Vine Street Café served up a mushroom bolognese sauce with penne pasta, tomato, parmesan and parsley.
But the star of the shows was Noah’s with its duck confit and shiitake mushroom pan-fried dumplings, served with a mushroom and cabbage slaw in an orange miso sauce. (more…)