Famed NYC Restaurant Moving To Amagansett For Summer

The owners of one of New York City’s most celebrated restaurants, Eleven Madison Park, announced this week that they will bring their kitchen and dining room staff to an Amagansett restaurant while their city space undergoes extensive renovations.Eleven Madison Park normally operates out of the Met Life North building on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue and serves a rotating seasonal menu of “new American” cuisine—for nearly $300 per person. Since it opened in 1998, the restaurant has consistently been ranked among the best restaurants in the world, including a number-three ranking on the S. Pelligrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2014. It has received four stars and been listed as the best restaurant in New York City by New York Times critics on multiple occasions.

But with their Met Life space undergoing a multimillion-dollar restyling and kitchen renovation, chef/owner Daniel Humm and owner Will Guidara will be moving the entire restaurant operation to the Amagansett restaurant building that long housed the Spring Close House, Farmhouse and, most recently, Moby’s.

The new restaurant will be called EMP Summer House and is being billed as a “more casual location” with a seafood-centric menu. The owners have not said if the Amagansett shop will mimic the city version’s chef’s tasting style menu—the multi-course menu is set each night and diners do not place an order—or the prices demanded there.

According to a publicist for American Express, which is partnering with the restaurateurs in the Hamptons venture, reservations will be available only to American Express cardholders, and the company will begin taking summer reservations in May, with a late-June opening planned.