The best new Hamptons restaurants for summer 2025…
Another Hamptons season is right here and it smells good. Across the East End, restaurants — both informal and clubby — are making their summer debuts and including taste to the long established combine of restaurants, cafes and bars that are the South Fork’s social hubs.
Expect burgers, “billionaire bacon” and boat hundreds of seafood.
Ready to dig into the East End? Here’s a look at the latest restaurants and menus from Westhampton to Montauk.
Ocean Club | 32 Star Island Road, Montauk
A burger, brew and fries at the Ocean Club. Courtesy of The Ocean Club
The huge, Carl Fisher-designed Star Island property that’s home to the newest iteration of the Montauk Yacht Club has seen a lot of change in latest years. It went from a modest and considerably dated hideaway to a five-star escape under Gurney’s possession.
Now, sans Gurney’s, it’s going sturdy under new possession as the biggest luxurious resort-marina in the Hamptons. The resort gave its 4,500-square-foot Ocean Club restaurant a full intestine renovation — including an open kitchen and wood-fired oven — with a contemporary new menu from Chef Jarad McCarroll. It’s heavy on the crustaceans (you’re welcome): There’s lobster Caesar salad, lobster pasta served in an fragrant broth and, of course, a lobster roll made with lemongrass mayo and topped with crispy onions.
Need some turf with your surf? Chef is curating prime steak like picanha, New York strip and tenderloin. The waterfront views are complimentary.
Fēniks | 75 Jobs Lane, Southampton
Chef Douglas Gulija and cousin Skip Norsic are behind these inventive dishes. Eric Striffler
Chef Douglas Gulija and cousin Skip Norsic are bringing a style of the Adriatic to the East End this summer with Fēniks. As of June, the new, year-round restaurant (named for the Croatian spelling of Phoenix) will operate from the Southampton Village space beforehand occupied by Le Chef.
Following a full reno, the historic building’s two-story atrium now sports activities an unique eight-course chef’s counter, an a la carte eating room and a cocktail lounge. The menus are impressed by Gulija and Norsic’s Croatian roots, as nicely as native ingredients and Gulija’s practically three-decade tenure at Southampton’s Plaza Cafe.
Expect seafood-centric gadgets like native black sea bass with udon noodles; Catsmo wild salmon with spring pea pancake, vodka creme fraiche and wasabi tobiko; and even Peconic escargot with inexperienced herb risotto, roast garlic-parmesan “snow” and snail caviar (at the chef’s desk). Nazdravlje!
Shuck Truck | Wherever you might be; 2025 Montauk Hwy., Amagansett
It’s shellfish heaven at Shuck Truck. JPV Photography
Amagansett’s Clam Bar is as close to a Hamptons eating establishment as it will get, with 44 seasons under its (ahem) shell. Now it’s coming to you with a actual pearl of a perk: a cellular uncooked bar service, aptly named the Shuck Truck.
After an exhausting hunt for a vehicle as cool as they’re, homeowners Kelly and John Piccinnini scored a 1966 Citroen H Van — the gold normal for trendy high-end food trucking — and tricked it out. Aimed at non-public occasions massive and small, the Piccinninis will customise a menu to your wants and ship live-shucked clams and oysters, shrimp cocktails, plus wines, spritzes and cocktails to your next sundown soiree.
It’s okay to be shellfish.
Artie’s in the Hamptons | 203 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton
A watermelon-infused cocktail at Artie’s. Courtesy of Artieâs in the Hamptons
Last season, Michelin-starred chef Joe Isidori opened the new “old school” crimson sauce restaurant Arthur & Sons in Bridgehampton. This season, the chicken parm and meatballs are back but with a scrumptious little additional known as Artie’s in the Hamptons.
A spin-off of Isidori’s Artie’s Backroom, his bar and lounge in Murray Hill, the new menu is all about traditional burgers. The Late Night Burger is a leaning tower of American cheese, particular sauce and pickles, while Artie’s Burger is decked in provolone, particular sauce and cherry peppers. The French fries and onion rings? They come with particular sauce, too.
Cut through all that fats with an acidic specialty margarita — golden, strawberry or spicy watermelon — while a combined bag of feel-good music units the temper.
Wayan & Ma•dé | 313 Three Mile Harbor Hog Creek Road, East Hampton
Enjoy Indonesian-French fare at Wayan & Ma•dé. Noah Fecks
This summer, EHP Resort & Marina is including a second waterfront restaurant to its sprawling 9-acre property from metropolis restaurateurs Cédric and Ochi Vongerichten. You in all probability already seen the title and, yes, high toque Jean-Georges Vongerichten is Cedric’s papa.
The husband-and-wife group are behind Wayan in Nolita (the title given to the firstborn youngster in Balinese tradition) and Ma•dé in Soho (Balinese for “second born”). Their East End residency will characteristic Indonesian-French fare lifted from those restaurants with a waterfront twist. During sundown over Three Mile Harbor, they’ll be serving oysters with chili-lime mignonette, popcorn shrimp with sambal oelek and a heat Balinese lobster roll.
After the lights go down, dinner dishes will embrace crab fried rice with kerupuk and cilantro; complete black sea bass with sambal tomat; and lobster noodles with black pepper butter and Thai basil.
Now how do you say “eat, pray, love” in French?
Swifty’s | 74 James Lane, East Hampton
Swifty’s is serving up its summer classics. Glen Alsop
It’s been 9 years since society cafe, Swifty’s, served its closing meatloaf and haricots verts on the Upper East Side. But when a restaurant is nice and its regulars embrace names like Michael Kors and Aerin Lauder, typically it will get a second, even third life.
Three years after shuttering its Lexington locale, the restaurant, backed by Mortimer’s alum Robert Caravaggi, reopened at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, where it has gone on serving the identical chummy clientele. Now, it’s following its primo patrons to their summer hang-out. Swifty’s will exchange Sartiano’s at the Hedges Inn in East Hampton, which ran afoul of locals with its, eh … obstreperous atmosphere.
The new restaurant is serving a related menu of clubby classics — we’re guessing they’ll cook you up some Billionaire’s Bacon, caramelized in brown sugar, if you ask properly.
Gigi’s Montauk | 290 Old Montauk Hwy., Montauk
Seafood delights at Gigi’s. Thomas John Agoglia
Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa is cooking with gasoline. This season, the superstar favourite hideaway is debuting a contemporary flagship eating room to exchange Scarpetta — Gigi’s Montauk — along with a new cafe and cocktail lounge, opening June 16.
Executive chef Justin Lee, previously of Mina Group, and govt chef de delicacies Mbaba Danso, a Gurney’s vet, are behind the new idea: a family-style menu of shareable dishes like The Angry Lobster (1.5 kilos of lobster tossed in smoky, spicy sauce), The Giant Shrimp Scampi (baked, halved shrimp in a lemongrass-infused mayo) and the signature Gigi Sushi Roll (spicy hamachi topped with tobiko and crispy shallots).
It’s designed as a social stage with 4,000 sq. ft of elbow room for 120 company indoors and 110 on the patio. Come to see somebody you already know — and everybody you need to know.
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