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A New York-based investment company has purchased both the Lieb Cellars vineyard and winery in Cutchogue and the Premium Wine Group in Mattituck for an undisclosed amount, the winery announced Thursday morning. Southport Lane, a private equity firm, is combining the two businesses into company. Mark Lieb, who founded Lieb Cellars and co-founded the Premium [...]
For the third consecutive year, Gerry Hayden, chef and co-owner of North Fork Table & Inn in Southold, is a finalist for a James Beard award, one of the most prestigious honors in the culinary world, in the best chef in the Northeastern U.S. category. Mr. Hayden is one of five finalists in the region [...]
Chef Keith Luce now has a new kitchen to run. The award-winning former White House chef announced today he has purchased the North Fork Oyster Company in Greenport’s historic Stirling Square with the newly formed NoFo Hospitality Holding LLC. Mr. Luce is the company’s majority shareholder. But that is just the beginning. A soon-to-launch casual [...]
If you watch the popular Food Network contest show “Chopped,” you’ll have a local chef to root for in an episode airing next month. Stephan Bogardus of Southold, chef de cuisine at The North Fork Table & Inn, will appear in an episode set to air at 10 p.m. March 12. Mr. Bogardus, 25, learned his [...]
The Suffolk Theater is set to open in downtown Riverhead next week and a familiar face has joined the team. Chef Tom Schaudel, best known on the North Fork as the owner of acclaimed restaurants A Mano and Alure, has signed on as culinary director of the theater. In that capacity, he’ll oversee the theater’s [...]
As the East End continues to polish its image as a leading wine region, a new effort’s a-brewing to turn the region into a destination for craft beer enthusiasts. Last month, Wine Enthusiast Magazine named the North and South Forks one of the world’s top wine destinations for 2013. In concert with that, two new [...]
Though the Greenport Harbor Brewing Company is still taking baby steps to get the its Peconic location up and running, owner Rich Vandenburgh has not stopped dreaming big. The Southold resident told The Suffolk Times he’d like to run a brew-pub-style restaurant at the property. “The property is just under three acres so we’d have [...]
The recent blizzard was hefty enough to close down the Long Island Expressway throughout all of Suffolk, so it’s easy to imagine why some local restaurants find it prudent to shut their doors for a period of time during the colder season. “Last week was an example of why so many businesses close during winter,” [...]
Snow flurries fell as wine lovers and jazz musicians kicked off Winterfest’s Jazz on the Vine series Saturday afternoon. Originally scheduled to start Feb. 8, the series was postponed by last weekend’s blizzard. Going on its sixth straight year, the Jazz on the Vine series is designed to bring visitors to the North Fork during the winter [...]
Robert Beaver, the 35-year-old executive chef and owner of The Frisky Oyster, unleashed the Green Fairy on the North Fork Valentine’s Day, when he began selling absinthe mojitos at his Greenport restaurant. “Absinthe itself was intriguing to me because of the mystery of it,” Mr. Beaver said of the controversial liquor, which is rumored to [...]
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