Season Openers
Old Stove Pub will reopen Thursday for spring, serving dinner Thursdays through Saturdays starting at 5. During its downtime, the Sagaponack restaurant has refreshed its interior and added new menu items to its classic Greek and steakhouse offerings along with a takeout menu and a new pub night on Thursdays. The pub menu has starters like chicken wings and onion soup and entrees such as burgers, fish and chips, chicken sandwiches, ribs, a crab cake sandwich, and a lamb burger. Karaoke will be coming soon on Fridays and live music on Saturdays. The restaurant's website will be updated with the latest information.
Dockside Bar and Grill in Sag Harbor is back Thursday after being closed since late November. The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner Thursdays through Mondays. It also serves brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. It does not take reservations.
Other signs of the season to come include Wolffer's announcement that its popular-with-the-weekend-crowd Summer in a Bottle is now available for preorder on its website.
Rowdy Goes Green
Next Thursday and March 27, Rowdy Hall in East Hampton will celebrate the actual St. Patrick's Day and then the Friends of Erin Montauk parade with Irish specials.
On both days, there will be a la carte lunch options and a prix fixe menu at dinner for $35. The two-course menu features a choice of appetizer and entree or entree and dessert. The appetizer is a Colcannon soup with bacon, cabbage, leeks, potatoes, chicken broth, and cream. The entrees are corned beef and cabbage or Irish sausage, mashed potatoes, and gravy. Both are served with Irish soda bread. Dessert will be an Irish apple cake with custard sauce.
The Clam Bar Opens
Napeague's Clam Bar is set to open for its 41st season on Friday, March 25, depending on the weather. Spring hours are Friday through Sunday beginning at 11:30 a.m., when the snack bar will offer table and takeout service.
Appetizers will include favorites such as tuna bits, white and red clam chowder, and clams and oysters on the half shell. Lobster rolls, fish and chips, steamers, a lobster B.L.T., and grilled local fish are the featured entrees.
Hours may vary, particularly early in the season. It is best to call ahead to make sure it is open at 631-267-6348.
Getting High on Wine
Nick and Toni's in East Hampton is celebrating the wines grown in the mountainous regions of Italy: Valle d'Aosta, Trentino-Alto Adige, Valtellina, Monferrato, and Etna. Its $150 wine-pairing dinner on March 31 will consist of a regionally inspired five-course menu starting with a variety of antipasti served with Spumante Grosjean Montmary Metodo Classico extra brut rose.
The primi course is a house aged Wagyu beef with pickled onions and chicory served with Pinot Bianco Manincor La Mainina Vigneti Delle Dolomiti from 2020. The second course is a rabbit stew with buckwheat polenta and pearl onions served with Chiavennasca Aldo Rainoldi Sassella Valtellina Superiore from 2016.The third is grilled quail with marrow sformato and cippolini puree with Barbera D'Alba Ada Nada Pierin from 2018. Dessert is a cannoli with pistachio and dark chocolate with Duo Dei Fortificati Amaro Dell'Etna and Nick and Toni's housemade arancello rosso.
The price does not include tax or gratuity. The menu will be served from 6 to 9 p.m. The wines will be available for special event pricing through Domaine Franey on the night of the dinner. Tickets can be purchased on the Nick and Toni's page on Resy.
Another Meatless Monday
Veggie lovers and those who love them can enjoy meatless Mondays now at K Pasa in Sag Harbor.
The margarita and taco emporium has added a $24 set menu with roasted beet soup and three veggie-based tacos with fillings such as vegan chorizo, sweet potatoes, and blackened tofu to its Monday specials with mango rice pudding for dessert. It will serve the menu, along with all of its regular items, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Let's Drink Virtual
Race Lane Liquors in East Hampton and its owner John Grisch will host a virtual wine tasting on Saturday at 7 p.m. Four bottles of wine will be sampled and can be picked up in the store by tomorrow at 6 p.m. The cost is $100 and the tasting will be conducted through Zoom. The East Hampton Lions Club will receive 70 percent of the proceeds.
Fried Chicken in Sagg
Loaves and Fishes food store in Sagaponack is getting a jump on summer, featuring the picnic classic and one of its favorite recipes, fried chicken.
The store will sell the cooked chicken this week. Its own recipe is in the store's cookbook for January, which features store favorites, for people who prefer to make it at home. The cookbooks are available at Loaves and Fishes or on its website.
A Rum Negroni
North Fork Table and Inn will serve a rum-based negroni cocktail in honor of Women's History Month in March. The smoked orange negroni has Mount Gay Eclipse rum, grapefruit bitters, simple syrup, pomegranate and lime juice, and other unusual ingredients.
The rum was created by Trudiann Banker, who became the company's first female master blender. It has "burnt notes of vanilla, banana, caramel, and summer fruit." The drink will only be available this month at the restaurant.
