The East End Food Scene Warms Up With Spring

Bostwick’s Season Opener

Good news for those hankering for a taste of warmer weather. Bostwick’s Chowder House on Pantigo Road East Hampton will reopen for the 2019 season on Thursday, April 4. Business hours, leading into the summer, will be Thursday through Sunday starting at 11:30 a.m. Also returning for the season are Bostwick’s classic menu offerings such as baked stuffed clams, coconut shrimp rolls, homemade clam chowder and lobster bisque, and lots of main dishes like seafood pasta, crab cakes, tuna poke fish tacos and the classic lobster roll.

Aren’t you glad it’s finally spring? For more details, visit bostwickschowderhouse.com.

Blutstein Heads Back To Montauk

In recent years, Chef Jeremy Blutstein could be found cooking up a storm at Almond Restaurant in Bridgehampton. But now, he’s heading east to Montauk where he will assume the position of executive chef at the new Gurney’s Star Island Resort & Marina (formerly known as Montauk Yacht Club).

This is Gurney’s second property in Montauk, the first, of course, being its well-known flagship property overlooking the ocean on Old Montauk Highway. Montauk is familiar terrain to Mr. Blutstein who formerly worked at the Crow’s Nest and the now closed East by Northeast.

Plans call for the restaurant, which will seat 180, to be open sometime this spring. Expect breakfast, lunch and dinner and with this being Montauk, a nice selection of local seafood, naturally.

Jason Weiner Cooks At The James Beard House

Also on the topics of Almond Restaurant, that eatery’s executive chef Jason Weiner will be cooking up a storm at the James Beard House in Manhattan on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m.

His “Smart Catch: Spring Seafood Splash” will feature a seafood centric menu paired with wines at each course. Mr. Weiner is partnering with several Long Island fishermen and farmers and the first course alone features fried Long Island oysters, porgy tartare, cured Amber Waves duck yolks, a monkfish pate with Mecox Bay yogurt and deviled eggs from Quail Hill served with swordfish bacon.

It doesn’t get much more local than that.

Tickets to the dinner are $180 at jamesbeard.org or 212-627-2308. The James Beard House is located at 167 West 12th Street in Manhattan.

Artists & Writers Dinner With Steven Gaines

Almond’s next “Artists & Writers Night” is Tuesday, April 9 at 7 p.m. with author Steven Gaines who will be reading from his memoir “One of these Things First.”

Mr. Gaines is the best-selling author of 12 books, including “Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons.” His journalistic writings have appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, and New York magazine, where he was a contributing editor for 12 years.

Mr. Gaines is a co-founder and past vice-chairman of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

The cost of the dinner is $45 which includes a three-course family style meal, a glass of Channing Daughters wine or draft. Reserve at 631-537-5665.