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Dining Guide: Porto Bello Restaurant
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Porto Bello owner Diana DiVello, center left, with son Bill Walters, center, hostess Merrie Hines, center right, and staff. Manager Elias Martinez is in the second row, far...
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Dining Guide: A Lure Chowder House & Oysteria
KATHARINE SCHROEDER PHOTO | Alure owner Adam Lovett, seated right, with chef and partner Jeff Uguil, seated left on the deck of the restaurant. Also pictured, along with the waitstaff, are managers...
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It’s a weekend to Shellabrate in Greenport
GIANNA VOLPE PHOTO | Noah Schwartz, chef and co-owner of Noah’s Restaurant in Greenport, prepares one of the dishes he plans to serve this weekend. Local winemakers and restaurateurs are poised to come...
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Your guide to Super Bowl Sunday specials
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Legends bartender Jonathan Polistena behind the bar Wednesday afternoon. Legends has 23 TVs to watch the Super Bowl. There may not be a local team in this year’s Super Bowl,...
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Bonnie Jean’s sold back to Country Corner Café
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | Country Corner Cafe owner Kelly Hunstein, center, with her two children: daughter Katie, left, and Ryan, right. The owner of Bonnie Jean’s has sold the Southold restaurant back to...
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Featured letter: Keep it affordable
Build it and they will come. Reading about the recent closings of local restaurants, boutique stores, etc., when are “they” (shop owners) going to get it? There is a great need for affordable places to...
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Get to know: Rebekah DeSimone, Michelangelo’s Pizzeria
RACHEL YOUNG PHOTO | Server Rebekah DeSimone behind the counter at Michelangelo’s Pizzeria in Mattituck Feb. 4. Southold native Rebekah DeSimone has worked the counter at Michelangelo’s Pizzeria in...
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Scrimshaw’s end of winter peking duck dinner giveaway
Northforker.com presents our latest “Experience North Fork” Giveaway. We are giving away great prizes through rafflecopter, which means you “like,” “follow,” “pin” or “join” to enter to win. To...
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CJ’s American Grill opens in Mattituck next week
CJ’s American Grill owners, from left: Joanne Richards, Chris Richards and Sal Malguarnera, with Bobby Bugdin, restaurant principal, and manager Sandra Bilotti. Barbaraellen Koch photo. CJ’s American...
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Goldberg’s Famous Bagels opening Thursday in Mattituck
The menu at Goldberg’s Famous Bagels in Mattituck, which opens Thursday, features a variety of breakfast foods, sandwiches and salads. (Credit: Rachel Young) Breakfast sandwich enthusiasts, tomorrow is...
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First & South restaurant hires new chef in Greenport
Scott Leventhal and Sarah Phillips at First and South restaurant in Greenport on Thursday. (Credit: Vera Chinese) Veteran chef Scott Leventhal has taken over the kitchen at First & South in...
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Offering craft beer and small bites, Industry Standard opens in Greenport
A new eatery, located on Front Street in the building that most recently housed Tony’s Asian Fusion, quietly opened its doors in Greenport last week. Industry Standard is a craft beer and small bites...
View ArticleEqual Time: Working together to find common ground
It’s not about food trucks. Let me start by saying I am 100 percent pro-food trucks at wineries, breweries or even farm stands. OK great; now that I have established that, I will continue. This is a...
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Local restaurants shift gears after scallop die-off
This season’s scallop die-off — and the resulting dismal harvest — has restaurateurs, baymen and ecologists deeply worried. Stephen Tettelbach, a shellfish ecologist with Cornell Cooperative Extension...
View ArticleShould Greenport Village consider implementing a moratorium on new...
As the number of restaurants and bars in Greenport increases, village officials are considering ways to limit further expansion and better regulate parking. At Thursday’s work session, officials...
View ArticleLocal restaurants, with much smaller staffs, adapt to find ways to stay afloat
Jerry Dicecco never imagined a time where his downtown Riverhead restaurant would be selling cartons of eggs, toilet paper and wholesale produce to stay afloat. But during the coronavirus pandemic,...
View ArticleGreenport will move ahead with proposal to eliminate some parking on Front...
The Greenport Village Board has agreed to do a trial run of a proposal to temporarily eliminate some parking on Front and Main streets in order to increase the size of the sidewalks and possibly have...
View ArticleGuest Spot: Let’s certify businesses as ‘COVID compliant’
Confusion and mixed messages abound concerning the full reopening of the economy. Is it happening too soon or not soon enough? Will I be safe dining out or shopping in small stores where social...
View ArticleState to allow local governments to decide if restaurant workers, taxi...
Restaurant workers can become eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under the current Phase 1b if local governments approve adding them as a priority, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday. The news...
View ArticleRestaurant curfews, food-with-alcohol rule coming to an end
Going out for drinks? Soon, New Yorkers will no longer be required to order food with alcohol purchases while dining out. Lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal the mandate, which was issued as an...
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