The Best Brunch in the Hamptons
John Capone
July 18, 2008
To paraphrase (okay misappropriate) food critic and author Raymond Sokolov, the Hamptons' East End is a narrow island off the coast of Manhattan devoted to the pursuit of brunch. In New York, the ladies, they lunch; when in the Hamptons, they brunch. Nosh with the best of them at the following BlackBook-approved locales. And check out our full Hamptons listings in restaurants, nightlife, and hotels.
Having inherited the morning-nosh mantle from the diner that occupied this Sag space before it, perennial brunch pick New Paradise Café (despite Durkin and Co.’s protestations that it is no longer a breakfast joint) serves a mean Bloody Mary to wash down the house specialty L.E.O.
Maybe the fact that Silver’s on Main Street in Southampton serves only breakfast and lunch is why they’re kings of that particular portmanteau.
The granddaddy of the elegant white table cloth brunch, the American Hotel’s restaurant is a dandy spot to while away an afternoon.
Greasy spoon Candy Kitchen has been sating hangovers since potato farms outnumbered McMansions in Bridgehampton.
They say that nobody does brunch as well as lesbians. Babbette’s in East Hampton is proof positive, and also one place where healthy and Bloody Mary belong in the same sentence.
The local fave Estia’s Little Kitchen dishes omelets, pancakes, and Tex-Mex platters in unassuming fashion on the road between Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor every day of the week except Tuesday.
If lecherous French lotharios work up your appetite for eggs and strong cocktails, head for Pierre’s in Bridgehampton with all due haste where you will find all the aforementioned.
The pinkish neon glow and diner fare of Southampton’s Sip ’n Soda may appeal to those with rose colored glasses, but the yelping kids in line for ice cream won’t do much for their headaches.
A daily morning extravaganza complete with a full bar can be had at Solé East’s Backyard for the minor inconvenience of a drive out to Montauk.
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