Side Dish: Get Rowdy, Go Publick
Check out the latest happenings at Hamptons and Riverhead restaurants.
Rowdy Hall in East Hampton is offering a few new items on its menu including Balsam Farm pear salad with roasted pears, local greens, feta, sliced almonds with a garden honey vinaigrette; beet salad with roasted beets, pickled red onions, watercress and whipped goat cheese; all natural boneless poussin with local sweet potatoes, Amber Waves wheat berries and cranberries; and duck liver mousse with Halsey Farm apples and toasted walnuts on a grilled baguette. 631-324-8555
Almond in Bridgehampton announces the return of the monthly “Artists & Writers Night” series on Wednesday, October 23 at 7 p.m. The seventh Artists & Writers Night will be hosted by Janet Goleas, curator of “The Moby Project.” The multi-disciplinary project features artists, writers and performers reacting to contemporary themes found in the novel Moby Dick. A family style three-course menu will be served and may include roast chicken, goat cheese ravioli and Berkshire pork chop Milanese. $40 advance, $45 at the door. 631-537-5665
theRIVERHEADPROJECT in Riverhead introduces theCHEFSPROJECT. Every Thursday at 7 p.m., TRP will serve a four-course family-style meal. For banquette seating in the main dining room, $50 per person. The kitchen will host a special chef’s table, accommodating 4 to 6 people at $75 per person, a percentage of which will be donated to the North Fork Animal Welfare League. The menu will change weekly depending on availability in the local market. The first menu includes lobster chowder, blackened wolf fish, lamb shank and fig tart. 631-284-9300
The Living Room Restaurant at c/o The Maidstone with Park Place Wines & Liquors, both in East Hampton, will host France Uncorked, a five-course wine pairing dinner featuring acclaimed French wines on Friday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m., prepared by Chef Mathias Brogie. $145 per person. Reservations are required. The menu may include sea scallop carpaccio with apple and cucumber salad with bleak-roe citronette; pulled slow-baked pheasant with sautéed chanterelles on toasted brioche and Tournedos Rossini with foie gras, bordelaise sauce and yasterbotten potato purée. 631-324-5006
Hampton Lady in Hampton Bays is offering two specials weekly: Tuesdays’ Lobster Extravaganza, features $28 twin lobsters. This offer is good through November 13. On Taco Thursday, guests can select two fillings for $23. Choose between shrimp, flounder, scallop, lobster or calamari. Served with fries. This offer is good through December 11. 516-446-6565
Southampton Publick House in Southampton is offering two-for-one entrees every Tuesday from 5 to 10 p.m. On Thursdays, a three-course prix fixe dinner is served for $24.95. Menu items may include grilled portabella salad with goat cheese, red onion and cherry tomato; hanger steak with frizzled onions; roasted LI duck with bittersweet orange sauce and lobster linguine with shaved fennel, cherry tomatoes, scallions and marinara. 631-283-2800