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“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 [...]
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 [...]
The owners of Downtown Riverhead’s newest ice cream shop are also familiar with the other end of the temperature scale. “We’re both city firemen,” said Ivan Albert, co-owner of Ralph’s Famous Italian Ices along with Frank LoPresti. “We work in lower Manhattan and we’ve both got about 16 years on the job.” Their newest ice [...]
Hundreds descended on Martha Clara Vineyard with glass jars and plastic containers in hand to have them filled by volunteers who spent hours peeling, chopping, grinding and whirring 20 bushels of horseradish roots into sauce Wednesday. VIEW SLIDESHOW ON RIVERHEADNEWSREVIEW.COM The annual informal and unadvertised free event was started about 40 years ago by then-Suffolk [...]
More than two years after the Island Boatyard & Marina closed its restaurant, deli and Shipwreck Bar operation, the owners are looking to lease their newly renovated space to a new tenant. James Brantuk is the son of one owner and the nephew of the other two. His father, Joseph Brantuk, and his uncles, Richard [...]
Across the East End, a network of school vegetable gardens is beginning to sprout — and with them new ways of teaching growing methods and tapping into community resources. Last week, Slow Food East End, which encourages the use of fresh local ingredients, announced it will be hiring three garden coordinators to help build on [...]
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