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Salivar's, Montauk Landmark, Is Sold

Publication: The East Hampton Press
By Virginia Garrison   Nov 8, 2011 4:45 PM
Nov 8, 2011 5:44 PM
Salivar's restaurant, a dockside landmark on Montauk Harbor, has been sold. COURTESY TOWN & COUNTRY REAL ESTATE
Salivar's restaurant, a dockside landmark on Montauk Harbor, has been sold. COURTESY TOWN & COUNTRY REAL ESTATE
Salivar’s restaurant, a landmark on the docks on Montauk Harbor, has been sold for $3.3 million, Judi Desiderio of Town & Country Real Estate in East Hampton announced on Monday.

The buyers are Brian Obergfell, a New York City attorney, and his wife, Jo-Ann Obergfell. “Both are Montauk lovers, they love Montauk,” Ms. Desiderio said, “and according to Brian, he’s been going to Salivar’s since he was a kid.”

Salivar’s, which was owned by the late Pete Chimpoukchis, was a thriving bar and diner-type restaurant for decades, popular with fishermen leaving the harbor in the early-morning hours, late-night bar patrons who could stumble over to the restaurant for breakfast after last call, and with tourists who came to inspect the mounted head of a great white shark caught by Frank Mundus, who... more

Lawyers now own Salivar's? And they're going to lease it out? There goes the neighborhood.
By bailey (45), East Hampton on Nov 9, 11 3:52 PM

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