Review: Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue
The fried softshell crab at Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue. Credit: Yvonne Albinowski
Marking a 30-year milestone this year, it was 1996 when Stone Creek Inn opened its doors in idyllic East Quogue. A country house of a restaurant, both charming and ceremonial, Stone Creek is an example of how fine dining flourishes under the steady gaze of its owners, the husband-wife team of Christian Mir and Elaine DiGiacomo.
Stone Creek Inn
Range of entrees: $38 to $175 (for a Prime Black Angus Porterhouse for two)
Accessibility: Wheelchair lift
Attributes: Date night, celebrations, legacy
Reservations: Suggested
405 Montauk Hwy., East Quogue
The pair met while working at New York City’s iconic Tavern on the Green, a place of both precision and celebration in its heyday, and purchased the historic Ambassador Inn for their own foray into '90s fine-dining. Interconnected dining rooms, once hushed and formal, feel more boisterous these days as regulars, and now, their grandchildren, dot tables under the gracious and attentive eyes of its service team — from valet to host to bartender to server.
Large at 160 seats, the plates coming from Stone Creek’s kitchen are bursting with the culinary pride of Mir’s native France, inflected with New American, Italian and Asian elements, and illuminating the bounty of the seasons.
The Stone Creek Inn in East Quogue. Credit: Yvonne Albinowski
Divided into two sections, the menu covers classic dishes and seasonal offerings. Classic starters include a light egg custard crowned with caviar, and duck meatballs squatting in puddles of butter-rich mashed potatoes, while recent seasonal selections have showcased grilled baby artichokes in miso and a seared Hudson Valley foie gras.
Credit: Yvonne Albinowski
Notable dishes
Egg custard, rack of lamb, bouillabaisse, beignets
Tip:
The specific dishes and the days of the week change, but the $45 two-course prix-fixe is a great deal. For 2026, there is also a two-course $30 prix-fixe celebrating the restaurant’s 30-year anniversary.
Classic entrees range from a herb-crusted rack of lamb to a rich bouillabaisse, dominated by fat mussels and served in a copper pot alongside good, crusty bread for dipping, and an organic salmon paired with massive tiger shrimp in a lemon beurre blanc sauce.
This past summer's offerings included a grilled red snapper on a fricassee of local corn, zucchini, and tomatoes and butter poached lobster in a coconut ginger lemongrass broth. Finish with warm beignets to share accompanied by a decadent caramel bourbon sauce.
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A global freelancer who has checked her suitcase to raise her young daughter on her native Long Island, Marie Elena will always make time for good mezcal, even better tacos and killer conversation. Preferably, in a corner bar seat. She can be found on Instagram at @mariesworldeats.
