Two painters thrive on eggs, homemade bread and ambitious dinner parties.
East End Wines Will Be Featured at ellabess in NYC
Two Long Island wineries will be holding dinners at ellabess restaurant in the new(ish) Nolitan Hotel. On Wednesday, February 1, at 7 p.m. Channing Daughters will be there to pour eight of their wines paired with four courses prepared by ellabess Chef Troy Unruh. Tickets are $75 all inclusive. The following Wednesday, February 15, also [...]
Cocoa-Vino
A chocolate sommelier goes head-to-head with Long Island wine.
Neighbors Balk at Farm Preservation
Earlier this month, Peconic Land Trust announced that it had received a $400,000 grant from the state to help buy Ships Hole Farm, which has 23 acres in Smithtown along the Nissequogue River. The land has been tilled since the 1820s, and in 1927 was bought by the Nicodemus family. In 1986 patriarch Richard Nicodemus [...]
Edible Roadtrip: Theater District Italian, New York Distilling Company’s Gin and the Hotel Williamsburg’s Excellent Restaurant
Our weekly business day trip to New York City is always a whirlwind packed with more food and drink experiences than can easily be digested. What started with a lunch at Casa Nonna–the newish rustic Italian restaurant from the E2Hospitality group that juggles 24 restaurants on a few continents, including BLT Burgers in Manhattan, Las [...]
East End Wines Will Be Featured at ellabess in NYC
Comment | January 26, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
Two Long Island wineries will be holding dinners at ellabess restaurant in the new(ish) Nolitan Hotel. On Wednesday, February 1, at 7 p.m. Channing Daughters will be there to pour eight of their wines paired with four courses prepared by ellabess Chef Troy Unruh. Tickets are $75 all inclusive. The following Wednesday, February 15, also [...]
Lightning Round Redux: Can Round Two Top Mushroom Declarations, M-16 Memories, Architectural Standup and a Few Chickens?
Comment | January 25, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
Lindsay Morris & Brian Halweil on “Visual Victuals: Capturing Our Food Community on Film” at Lightning Round from Parrish Art Museum on Vimeo. If you missed The Parrish Art Museum’s debut Lightning Round, an evening of rapid-pace presentations by local artists, designers, chefs and other culture movers and shakers, that offers the audience a sort [...]
Neighbors Balk at Farm Preservation
Comment | January 19, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
Earlier this month, Peconic Land Trust announced that it had received a $400,000 grant from the state to help buy Ships Hole Farm, which has 23 acres in Smithtown along the Nissequogue River. The land has been tilled since the 1820s, and in 1927 was bought by the Nicodemus family. In 1986 patriarch Richard Nicodemus [...]
Edible Roadtrip: Theater District Italian, New York Distilling Company’s Gin and the Hotel Williamsburg’s Excellent Restaurant
Comment | January 13, 2012 | By Brian Halweil
Our weekly business day trip to New York City is always a whirlwind packed with more food and drink experiences than can easily be digested. What started with a lunch at Casa Nonna–the newish rustic Italian restaurant from the E2Hospitality group that juggles 24 restaurants on a few continents, including BLT Burgers in Manhattan, Las [...]
The Riverhead Project Takes on New Projects
Comment | January 11, 2012 | By Mary Foster Morgan
Chef Greg Ling at The Riverhead Project on East Main Street in Riverhead has clearly made an impression on East End eaters. An online query re favorite foods of 2011 brought comments about the restaurant’s sizzling lobster perogies and the grilled romaine salad. Now on Mondays starting in January The Riverhead Project will widen the [...]
It’s Alsace in Bridgehampton at Pierre’s
Comment | January 10, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy | Photographs by Lindsay Morris
The cuisine of the sliver of land sandwiched between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine, Alsace, is enough evidence of the region’s varied history. The food represents its French soul and German influence. This is home for Pierre Weber, proprietor of Pierre‘s in Bridgehampton (whom we profiled last winter), and for the final week in [...]
Are We Thinking Too Hard About Food?
Comment | January 6, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
Sometimes I think so, especially when I talk to people who don’t take food/wine production into account when planning vacations. Or when I see people taking pictures of their food, or when I take pictures of my food. Once I went to a wine tasting that lasted three hours, which we spent talking about nothing [...]
Greenport Harbor Brewery Is Expanding
Comment | January 5, 2012 | By Eileen M. Duffy
Good for these guys. You just can’t go wrong with beer. The micro brewery on Carpenter Street in Greenport is buying the building on the corner of Peconic Lane and the Main Road in Peconic that used to house the Lucas Ford dealership. They will use the space to increase production, the land behind it [...]