A plan to build eight guest rooms in an existing barn adjacent to the Jedediah Hawkins Inn in Jamesport will be the subject of a public hearing at the Riverhead Planning Board’s June 7 meeting, which starts at 7 p.m. The owners of the inn have made no secret of their plans to seek the [...]
An advertisement that will appear in this month’s Times/Review Vacation Guide features a list of Summer 2012 Downtown Riverhead events sponsored by the Riverhead BID, Suffolk County National Bank and/or the Riverhead News-Review. In case you want to start making plans now, here’s the ad: Summer events in downtown Riverhead
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Milla Handley has been making wine in California since 1975. Back then, she was one of very few women actually down in the cellar, dragging hoses around and monitoring fermentation temperatures. In 1978 she and her husband, Rex McClellan, moved to the remote Anderson Valley, north of Sonoma, where, over time, they planted 29 acres [...]
“But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from … the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and beluga caviar, sour plonk and Chateau Lafite, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without [...]
The makers of Long Island’s first vodka have expanded their offerings, moving beyond potato-based spirits to embrace barley. LiV, Long Island’s first and only distillery, just released a 150-case micro batch of the region’s first and only locally produced single-malt whiskey, a 95 proof spirit. “It’s brand-spanking-new,” said LiV owner Richard Stabile. The first batch [...]
About 10 years ago, restaurant owner Ken Loo began visiting nearby Spanish grocery stores. He would buy fresh ingredients to cook up tacos inside the kitchen at his West Main Street restaurant, Hy-Ting. Now, the downtown Riverhead restaurateur is set to open his own Tex-Mex restaurant on East Main Street to share his love of [...]
Food and drink servers from several North Fork restaurants and wineries took to the streets of Greenport Sunday morning for the Great Waiter Race to benefit health and wellness activities at Eastern Long Island Hospital. Sponsored by The Market and Body Armor drinks, the race required waiters to balance a wine glass and a bottle [...]
Blue Duck Bakery expects its downtown Riverhead store to be open in June, and it’s also working on getting a new production plant up and running in Riverside, according to owner Keith Kouris. The new bakery will be located in the same re-faced building as the Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices store that opened last week. [...]
It’s hard to top last year’s scallop season, but the fishermen who hung in there plying the waters these last several months say they weren’t disappointed and expect great things again next year. “It was a great season, the best season since I started,” said Ed Densieski of Riverhead, who scallops part-time from opening day [...]
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