Hamptons Dining Dish: Living Room, Almond, 668 The Gig Shack
Here’s what’s hot in Hamptons dining.
The Living Room Restaurant at c/o The Maidstone in East Hampton offers a build- your-own prix fixe every Sunday through Thursday. The prix fixe offers your choice of three-courses or two-courses from the entire menu. The two-course option includes either an appetizer and entrée or entrée and dessert with a glass of wine. The cost is $42 person. Select menu items include: de puy, cold lentil salad with sautéed summer vegetables, pickled radishes and turnips, asparagus aioli with a Parmesan and red beet emulsion; sweet corn fish soup with sautéed scallops, scallions and a herb citronette; and crispy duck breast with grilled peach, scallions and a balsamic reduction red wine sauce. 631-324-5006. themaidstone.com/restaurant.
Almond in Bridgehampton offers a new prix fixe, Tuesday through Sunday, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The three-course menu offers three choices for each course. The menu changes nightly and the cost is $29 per person. Sample appetizers include warm Amagansett beet salad; herbed goat cheese ravioli; and Wheatberry and broccoli soup with smoked cheddar crostini. Sample entrées include: Dock to Dish whole roasted Dorade, marinated Sagaponack beefsteaks, grilled pancetta and spring onion toast; roasted chicken with Tom’s red bliss potatoes and green beans; and steak frites. Sample dessert items include: buttermilk panna cotta; and Jen’s peach and ginger compote, pop tart. 631-537-5665. almondrestaurant.com.
Caci North Fork in Southold is open from dinner nightly from 5 to 10 p.m. and lunch on Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 4 p.m. Select menu highlights include: Buffalo milk ricotta ravioli with black summer truffle sauce; grilled rack of lamb with caramelized shallots and red wine sauce; and grilled striped bass with aromatic herb and red bell pepper sauce. Select desserts include: panna cotta with blackberry sauce; caramel gelato with toffee sauce; and warm chocolate cake with raspberry sauce and vanilla gelato. 631-765-4383. cacinorthfork.com.
668 The Gig Shack in Montauk hosts a happy hour Monday through Friday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. offering half-priced appetizers, and half-priced drafts and wells-drinks. Appetizers include: spicy tuna tartar taquitos with toasted sesame seeds, avocado and micro greens; seared local scallops with baby arugula salad, avocado, toasted sesame seeds and warm soy vinaigrette; and pickled banana pepper quesadillas with black beans, roasted corn and cilantro sour cream. 631-668-2727. 668thegigshack.com.
Love Lane Kitchen in Mattituck is open daily serving breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Dinner is available daily from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Breakfast and lunch highlights include: seasonal pancakes such as lemon ricotta or pumpkin flavored; fish tacos, two flour tortillas stuffed with fresh grilled fish, marinated radish guacamole and cilantro sour cream; a goat cheese Panini with sautéed mushrooms, onions, zucchini, squash, eggplant with Mesclun greens on pressed focaccia roll. Dinner items include: Cory’s coconut curry chicken with sticky white rice and fresh avocado; Moroccan style roasted Crescent Farm duck with Israeli cous-cous; and marinated double cut baby lamb chops with charred eggplant salad. 631-298-8989. lovelanekitchen.com.