The hospitality scene on Long Island’s East End is undergoing a quiet but unmistakable transformation that extends far beyond the Hamptons’ familiar glitz, offering a bevy of exciting new destinations alongside old favorites with exciting updates.
Located on a nine-acre sanctuary overlooking Three Mile Harbor, the EHP Resort & Marina in East Hampton, for example, is welcoming Cédric and Ochi Vongerichten’s Indonesian-French concepts Wayan and Ma•dé back for their second season.
New York restaurants Wayan and Ma•dé make a return to East Hampton; photo courtesy of EHP Resort & Marina
There’s also a flurry of activity in Montauk, including new guest experiences at Montauk Yacht Club, which will kick off the summer season with live music and DJ sets, wellness offerings, and family-friendly social activations across the property. Prince Street Hospitality, the team behind Cucina Alba in New York and Los Angeles, has introduced Italian restaurant Alba Spiaggia at the waterfront hotel, too.
Nearby, Marram Montauk is rolling out an array of ritual-themed activities emphasizing discovery, comfort, and connection, as well as immersive new experiences, including a women-centered surf program with Engstrom Surf and creative workshops with Lindsay Silberman’s Hotel Lobby Candle.
Also premiering this summer is Barlume Beach, a 19-key hotel, bar, restaurant and beach club from LDV Hospitality that overlooks the glittering Montauk Harbor and boasts interiors by New York firm Studio Tre.
The lobby retail area at Hotel Corduroy; photo by Matt Kisiday
Blue Flag Capital, a hospitality real estate private equity firm with celebrated properties on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, is also making a mark on the area’s windswept dunes. The company recently converted the former Sunset Montauk into Hotel Corduroy with the help of New York-based firm Ward + Gray. The interiors of the intimate 29-key retreat draw from the area’s surfing heritage and laidback creative spirit, while architecture by Workshop/ADP preserves and reworks the site’s three original buildings.
In June, Blue Flag will also open Faraway Sag Harbor, its transformation of the historic Baron’s Cove into a 67-room boutique hotel with layered coastal interiors conceived by Jenny Bukovec Studio. The property will be home to Zagara, a waterfront restaurant that brings Amalfi Coast-inspired seafood to the harbor’s edge. Plus, a pool terrace and ground-floor bar and lounge complete what promises to be a much-anticipated dining destination.
Faraway Sag Harbor; rendering courtesy of Blue Flag Capital
The 34-room Oyster Estate—also from Blue Flag—will launch in September on the North Fork. Designed in collaboration with Islyn Studio, the Greenport property takes inspiration from the area’s working waterfront and surrounding farms and vineyards and will include a newly built courtyard pool and patio anchored by cocktail bar and restaurant Fortune Favors.
Hampton Bays, meanwhile, gets its own boutique moment with the Penny Lane, an 18-room waterfront property previously known as the Drake Inn. Here, Lark Hotels tapped KKAD and Laura Partica Studio to helm the project, which now flaunts custom wallpaper depicting local imagery and a coastal-inspired palette of white and cream punctuated by olive and sage green accents.
And following a full-scale restoration by designer David Netto, the Hedges Inn will soon reopen in East Hampton. The project will also feature a redesign of the gardens and grounds by noted landscape architect Ed Hollander, alongside contributions from FGS Designs and Fleetwood, McMullan & Sanabria as project architects.
The Hamptons have always known how to make an entrance. This summer, it seems, the whole shoreline is ready to join the party.
The interior of Alba Spiaggia; photo courtesy of Montauk Yacht Club
Hotel Corduroy features 29 guestrooms designed by Ward + Gray; photo by Matt Kisiday