Crushed Olive opens in Sayville
Mona Rossero bottles an oil selection at her new store, The Crushed Olive, in Huntington. (June 13, 2011) Credit: Newsday, 2011 / Erica Marcus
The Crushed Olive has added a third Long Island location to its portfolio. Mona and Bob Rossero opened their first olive-oil-and-vinegar boutique in Hickory, N. C., in 2010. The Huntington natives had moved to Hickory five years ago, and, after the success of that first store, they decided to open a branch in their old hometown. A Huntington store opened last May; Stony Brook followed in October.
Now the Sayville Crushed Olive is open for business with about two dozen olives oils (half of which are single-origin extra-virgins from Europe, Tunisia, Australia and California; the rest are infused oils with flavors that range from blood-orange and Persian lime to herbes de Provence and wild-mushroom-sage) and about as many vinegars — balsamic, sherry, Champagne and flavored.
It’s serve-yourself at the Crushed Olive. Little plastic cups and cubes of bread are stationed next to every oil and vinegar. Once you find one you like, you decant it into a 12-ounce bottle (most cost $16.99), a 6-ounce bottle ($13) or a 2-ounce sampler ($4.95).
