The Newest Restaurants to Check Out This Summer in the Hamptons

Long days at the beach call for long nights at the hottest new restaurants around the Hamptons this summer. Here are a few of the buzziest projects to check out while you’re out east this summer. Showfish at Gurney’s Star Island Hamptons native and longtime resident Jeremy Blutstein, most recently of Almond, is heading up the F&B operations at Gurney’s Star Island. The resort’s flagship restaurant, Showfish, is an elevated take on sustainable dining. Tapping into lifelong relationships with farmers on the East End and local fishermen, Blutstein is using only local ingredients for his menu. That fish you’re eating? It was probably in the water only hours earlier. “With the local farms and Montauk being the biggest-producing seaports on the East Coast, [this] lends itself to being a chef’s dream to cook out here,” says Blutstein. “We’re cooking sustainably, we’re using organic farming, we’re contributing back to the community we live in by using local purveyors. I could very easily call a big-box produce company and have all my stuff show up in the back of a box truck at 6 a.m. But instead I call about 15 people at the end of service, and they show up in their cars

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