New restaurants ready to make noise in Hamptons, locals try to silence Zero Bond

New restaurants are ready to swing open their doors in the Hamptons this summer – even as the East End’s notorious noise police look to keep Big Apple hotspot Zero Bond from gaining a foothold.

The roster of new ventures include Italian and French eateries from veteran restaurant operators in East Hampton, an upscale tavern in Sag Harbor from a lauded Brooklyn food maven, and a bakery in Southampton from a private chef popular with reality TV stars.

The Italian-focused restaurant is being launched at the historic Maidstone Hotel in East Hampton by LDV Hospitality, the owner of Scarpetta at the James Hotel in Nomad.

The restaurant opens amid furor over Zero Bond – the NoHo celeb magnet favored by Mayor Eric  Adams, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kim Kardashian – getting a lease at the nearby Hedges Inn,  a 13-room luxury hotel that opened in 1873.

East Hampton residents averse to late-night revelry in the swanky enclave have pushed to enact a new ordinance that would block hotels in the “historic zone”  from serving food and drinks between 10 pm and 6 am.

After a raucous hearing last week,  another meeting on the fate of  Scott Sartiano’s club is slated for May 17.

Meanwhile, another restaurant making a debut in East Hampton will be Village Bistro, a 90-seat French-American restaurant owned by Adam Potter where Rowdy Hall used to be before it moved to Amagansett.

It will be an “updated take on a French bistro,” a spokesperson said, adding that dishes will range from French onion soup to steak frites and burgers. 

Potter is teaming with Dane Sayles and Piero Zangarini, a pair of independent contractors who provide food and beverage services at Si Si, Sunset Harbor and Enchante. 

Sayles and Zangarini are also opening N’AMO Seafood & Raw Bar in Montauk.  

Over in Sag Harbor, famed Brooklyn restaurateur Billy Durney expands his empire with seafood-focused Sag Harbor Tavern in a nod to his popular Red Hook Tavern — which is based on his love of old school New York institutions like McSorley’s, Pete’s Tavern, Fanelli Cafe, White Horse Tavern and even Minetta Tavern. 

The restaurant — which will have 40 seats inside and 60 to 70 outside, with a lounge area for a cocktail across from the marina while waiting for a table — will serve  Durney’s famed burger.

It will also feature locally sourced seafood and new items that he is currently testing, like a squid ink tagliatelle, as well as whole grilled branzino, spicy tuna crudo, North Fork oysters and local fluke crudo.   

“It will be epic,” Durney told Side Dish.

Durney, who also made his name with Hometown Bar-B-Que in Red Hook, followed by outposts in Industry City and Miami, said his friends had wanted him to open in Sag for years. 

Now, a  “turn of the century tavern makes sense and would fit well” he said, adding that he hopes the tavern will be year round — even if they have to close in “January and February for the first year.” 

In Southampton, private chef Andrew Molen — whose clients include former “Housewives of New York” stars Ramona Singer and Luann de Lesseps, along with Kevin O’Leary and Daymond John of “Shark Tank” — will open Windmill Lane Bakery and Cafe with partner Karoline Cerqueira on Memorial Day weekend.

The store at 17 Windmill Lane, the former home of Ye Old Bakeshop, will offer healthy choices with meal kits and picnic baskets, along with plant-forward baked goods — and plenty of non-vegan choices as well. 

“My partner, Karoline, and I found out six months ago that the space would be available and thought, what does Southampton need with all of its many restaurants. We realized the village needed a healthy place with alternative foods. Karoline is a licensed holistic nutritionist, and the concept came to us naturally,” Molen said. 

Back in Montauk, Monte’s at the Manor, a fave with local celebs like Julianne Moore and Naomi Watts and her spouse, Billy Crudup, opened quietly last July with no fanfare.

The 70-seat restaurant has an outdoor patio that seats 50 and is open year-round. 

The Monte family started its ascent in the hospitality business when their great grandfather launched a Brooklyn grocery store after emigrating from Naples in the late 1880s. 

They later launched a restaurant, Monte’s Venetian Room, in the space that opened in 1916 and closed last year — but has been out of the family’s control since the 1980s.

By 1956, Angelo and Nicky Monte bought Gurney’s Inn, which the family sold in 2013. 

Five years later, they began bottling their own red sauce, which is available at the Montauk eatery as well as nationwide. 

LDV Hospitality also will serve up red-sauce favorites like spaghetti with tomato and basil, along with American summer classics like lobster rolls, by Chef Jorge Espinoza, who helmed Scarpetta in the city.

The restaurant will have 125 seats, featuring 55 inside the main dining room, another 30 at the bar and the rest in its outdoor garden space — under chef Jorge Espinoza, who helmed Scarpetta in the city. 

“East Hampton has great brands and restaurants, but in the village dining options are lacking, and activating the backyard is great,” LDV Hospitality founder John Meadow told Side Dish. “People can come and hang in the garden all day. It’s a nice respite from shopping or after a day at the beach with the kids.”

LDV, which stands for “La Dolce Vita,” will also take over management of the Maidstone, which dates to around 1840, and its food and beverage program in a deal with the hotel’s ownership group led by Tilray CEO Irwin Simon. 

 “It’s super exciting to be at the Maidstone as part of the hotel and not just the restaurant. We are re-envisioning the Maidstone, from the rooms to the restaurant and garden,” said Meadow, who also runs  Scarpetta Beach at Gurney’s Montauk Resort & Seawater. 

“This is our hotel play, which we’ve always wanted to do. Everything will be branded with one identity, like at Sunset Beach. It’s combining the heritage of the Maidsone and old world East Hampton with ‘la dolce vita.’”

Lastly, in Westhampton, Seven Beach Lane, a new boutique hotel and restaurant, is opening this June, says general manager Ben Levine. 

It features 16 guest rooms, a pool, garden and restaurant.

Taste Long Island Events will expand its food and wine festivals in the Hamptons and North Fork this summer.

The culinary events launch on June 15, with the Taste of Westhampton Beach, which debuted last year and will have more than 25 top chefs and restaurants involved. 

On July 20, the Hamptons Wine & Food Classic launches at Stony Brook Southampton College, with a performance by Decadia — The Soundtrack of Your Life, and the VIP area hosted by restaurateur Ian Duke, of the Southampton Social Club. 

The third event, Chefs of the East End, will be held on Aug. 9 at the Atlantis Sea Star Ballroom in Riverhead, where North Fork and Hamptons chefs will prepare a local feast. 

Next up: the Northforker Wine & Food Classic, which will be held at the Borghese Vineyard on Aug. 29, while the fifth event will be the Borghese 25th Anniversary Celebration, also at the Borghese Vineyard. 

The inaugural Long Island Wine & Food Classic wraps up the extended season on Sept. 28 at Farmingdale College.