Blue Duck Bakery Cafe hatches in Riverhead
The Blue Duck Bakery, with branches in Southold and Southampton, just opened a new Riverhead bakery cafe. (December 2012) Credit: Newsday Joan Reminick
Keith Kouris, who, with his wife, Nancy, owns the bakeries, said that the location is ideal, since it’s situated between the two Forks and is also convenient to home — which is in Aquebogue.
Artisan bread is what the Blue Duck name has long stood for. The bakery also makes cakes, pastries and cookies. Soups, salads and sandwiches, pre-made daily on-site, are to be eaten at cafe tables or taken out.
Recently, I had a sandwich of grilled chicken with pesto, roasted red peppers and fresh mozzarella on herbes de Provence bread ($7.99). Instead of eating the sandwich cold, I opted to have it grilled on a panino press. I liked that the chicken was good and moist but found the combination of assertively herbal bread plus pesto overwhelmed all the other components of the sandwich. Dessert, a slice of coconut custard pie, was rich yet light.
