News for Foodies 07.09.15
Babette’s restaurant in East Hampton is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The eatery, on Newtown Lane in the village, offers a select menu of fresh, organic dishes, along with juices from a juice bar. It was founded in June 1995 and is run by Barbara Layton of East Hampton, who opened a second Babette’s in Newport Beach, Calif., last year with her son. Babette’s is serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner in East Hampton every day from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Featured Beer
Narragansett beer is being offered for $3 a pop through tomorrow at 668 the Gig Shack in Montauk, in homage to the movie “Jaws,” in which the New England beer appears. A shandy beverage — the beer plus lemon — will also be offered. The “Jaws” theme at the restaurant includes a mural by a Brooklyn artist, Natalia Zukerman, of Quint, the shark-hunter in the film, who was based on Montauk’s Frank Mundus.
Waterfront in Montauk
At Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Cafe on East Lake Drive there is seafood and barbecue fare on the menu and firepits where diners may have s’mores for dessert by the fire. An oyster happy hour takes place daily from 4 to 5 p.m., and there is live music by Lawrence Cooley in the waterfront bar on Thursday nights from 6 to 10. Also on the menu is a new Mediterranean swordfish special, with the fish served with black olives and tomatoes on lemon couscous. Beverages include local and other wines and beer from the Greenport Harbor Brewery. The site is accessible by boat, with dock and dinghy slips available.
Sole East Summer
Also in Montauk and serving Mediterranean-influenced dishes is the Backyard Restaurant at Sole East inn, which is serving lunch and dinner daily, and a brunch, complete with bossa
nova music, on Sundays.
Among the new summer menu items are a $19 surf and turf with a rosemary grilled lamb chop, lemon-mint gremolata, and orange miso-glazed shrimp; clams casino with jalapeno, basil, and bacon butter; gnocchi with lobster, cherry tomatoes, and tarragon; duck confit; herb-brined roasted chicken, and penne with pesto, pine nuts, and ricotta salata. Items from the grill, served with a side dish of choice, include skirt or hanger steak with chimichurri sauce and Montauk-caught sea scallops, striped bass, or monkfish.