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Cocktail hour at The Cuddy in Sag Harbor
Photo credit: Lauren Chattman
At The Cuddy, Sag Harbor’s new gastropub, beverage director Derek Nielsen has created a menu of delicious “handcrafted” cocktails to go with chef Gilberto Chico’s refined comfort food. Look for drinks made with fresh juices, artisanal bitters, house-made maraschino cherries and flavored syrups.
The Lucia Margarita ($12), with jalapeno-infused Reposado tequila, has just the right balance of...
Read more »Sapsuckers in Huntington: Breaking the spell
Photo credit: Doug Young
There’s this friend of mine with whom I have the worst restaurant luck. North Shore or South Shore, Suffolk or Nassau, Italian or Japanese — we never seem to have a good meal. Last night I took her to Sapsuckers in Huntington, and I’m happy to report that the spell — or at least the streak — is broken.
Sapsuckers Hops & Grub is what I call a going concern. Not only is it crowded (almost...
Read more »Left Coast Kitchen: Exuberant in Merrick
Photo credit: Newsday / Erica Marcus
Left Coast Kitchen & Cocktails is so assured, so comfortable in its skin, that it’s hard not to have a great time here. Certainly this is one of the South Shore’s hippest spots, with an open kitchen, lots of old-timey decorative accents and servers outfitted in the retro-lumberjack style of so many of-the-moment Brooklyn boites.
We started with fried oysters, good if not improved by their...
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