Bridgehampton Inn To Feature Additional Rooms This Spring; Loaves And Fishes Cookshop To Move To Inn

For years, Bridgehampton Inn owner Sybille van Kempen envisioned a business that was more than just a bed-and-breakfast.

Now her dream is becoming a reality.

The Bridgehampton Inn officially added restaurant service in June of last year. In coming months, the business will not only introduce six new guest rooms in a $1.5-million addition that has been in the works since late September, but it will also house the Loaves and Fishes Cookshop, which will move from its Main Street spot to the bottom floor of the inn’s addition.

Ms. van Kempen and her husband, Gerrit, as well as her mother, Anna Pump, and eldest son, Stephan, all manage the cookshop as well as the Loaves and Fishes Foodstore in Sagaponack.

With the Loaves and Fishes Cookshop in the picture as of March 15, Ms. van Kempen said she sees an opportunity to extend Bridgehampton’s shopping district by having the store as a starting point—patrons can park in the new parking lot behind the inn, shop at Loaves and Fishes, grab lunch at the inn, and then walk farther down to Main Street for more shopping.

The move for Loaves and Fishes also came in light of the building’s lease ending, and the owner not wanting to sell to the van Kempens.

“For the future of the business, it would only make sense. It made so much more sense to build it on our own space,” Ms. van Kempen said. “This is really as much for us as it is for the community.”

Meanwhile, the new rooms are slated to be ready for use beginning May 1. They will feature the same old-fashioned decor as the six existing rooms: large open vanities, intricate wooden headboards, delicate artwork and colonial carpeting. The addition will also feature a second-floor deck, accessible by French doors and adorned with wicker furniture. Rates for the rooms vary depending on the season and the days of the week, but a suite can cost up to $880 on a weekend or holiday from May to September.

With this new chapter in the Bridgehampton Inn’s long history, Ms. van Kempen said a new window of opportunities will be available for guests, including being able to hold wedding parties at the establishment. To see her vision finally come to fruition, Ms. van Kempen said, was “breathtaking.”

“I think if you create it in the way of your passion, your vision, your dream, it’s amazing,” she said in the inn’s dining room last week. “But this does not mean the end of new things for the inn. “I have another one in store, but I can’t tell you what it is.”