On the day before Halloween a crowd of more than 60 Slow Food East End members and friends, several sporting costumes, strolled along Main Street in downtown Riverhead, sampling local food and wine at five stops for the North Fork’s first ever slow food crawl. “The idea is not to get into a car, but [...]
The Winemaker Studio is a place for the unconventional and the obscure; a tasting room for the little guy. Owner and independent wine maker Anthony Nappa opened the Peconic Lane studio this summer to highlight not only his own label, but to collaborate with other local and independent winemakers who may otherwise not have a [...]
One New York Cork Report reader recently wrote a hilarious post about taking her hard-to-please parents on a trip to the North Fork. It turns out the parents were, in fact, pleased with their daughter’s restaurant choices, including Elbow Room in Jamesport, Love Lane Kitchen in Mattituck, Braun Seafood Company in Cutchogue and The North Fork Table [...]
Halloween weekend is here! We wrote in a recent blog post about the free glasses of red, white and rosé customers can score at Comtesse Therese Bistro by wearing Halloween costumes, but we think the special is worth another mention — especially because Martha Clara Vineyards is running a similar deal. Comtesse Therese staffers will serve [...]
Eric Fry is very clear on his job definition: he is a winemaker, pure and simple. He is certainly not a marketer, nor is he interested in having to sell the wines he makes at Lenz Winery in Peconic. Mr. Fry’s goal is to make wines he likes, and he always hopes to find like-minded [...]
After interviewing North Fork bakers and scoping out the local cake scene for my latest article on wedding dessert trends, I can’t stop thinking about sweets! There are some seriously talented pastry artists right in our vicinity. A Sacred Sweets cake (pictured here), inspired by a couture gown, was recently named one of America’s most [...]
Foodies addicted to television shows about baking may assume the current wedding cake trend calls for an extravagant, over-the-top creation. But “that’s just television,” says Keith Kouris, baker and owner of the Blue Duck Bakery Café in Southold. Mr. Kouris and other local bakers say North Fork weddings often feature smaller cakes than in years [...]
As the end of October approaches, harvest season winds down in Wine Country. Clusters of grapes have been clipped off the vines and grape crushing is about to be in high gear. When I think of the early process of turning grapes into wine, I can’t help but remember the grape-stomping scene in that “I [...]
The owner of Lobster Roll Northside and the shopping center anchored by the popular restaurant will be auctioning off the site to pursue another business venture. Frederick Terry said the restaurant will close for the season in early December, as it has in years past, regardless of whether a new operator purchases the site at [...]
Brides Magazine has called a cake made at Sacred Sweets in Greenport one of the 24 most beautiful cakes in America. More than 200 bakeries from across the country participated in the magazine’s search for the most beautiful cakes, according to Brides.com. Sacred Sweets bakers Miche Bacher and Nanao Anton’s fondant cake, featuring a giant [...]
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