somehow, the event scheduling gods smiled on us over labor day weekend and the kitchen staff was lucky enough to get three days off in a row. yay! being adventurous and insane, i decided to take the opportunity to drive up to the hamptons with a friend to visit timmy and douggy and send the summer out in style. leaving after work on friday put me there at around 4:00 in the morning, but a short night's sleep had everyone primed for a good day of vacationing. less than favorable weather, however, killed any ideas of a day at the beach. this gave us the chance, though, to go exploring. we drove up to montauk, went to the lighthouse, hit a few bars and restaurants in town and along the way and had a really awesome day getting to enjoy being tourists. after a week spent working at the meetinghouse back in july, it was really nice to finally to get s
ome free time up in the playground of new york's rich and famous. the highlight of the first day, though, was absolutely an awesome restaurant called the surf lodge. we sat on their giant patio overlooking the water, drank really expensive margaritas, listened to a fantastic female r&b singer, and watched the sun come out, promising good weather for sunday. the place itself is a perfect example of hamptons shabby chic and apparently the chef was one of the contestants on top chef, though we didn't eat having filled up on fried food and montauk's coolest dive bar earlier in the day. by 6:00, however, we were pretty much completely drunk and tired so we headed home for a short five hour nap. ha! o
ne of the nice things about amagansett (and the hamptons in general) is that the bars stay open until four, so you can start late and end late. anyway, we enjoyed a post nap dinner at the meetinghouse and then headed over to talkhouse, the strangest dive bar i've ever found...great bands, low ceilings, pictures of nude models and all of the famous bands who've played there over the years, and the creme de la cre
me of new york's rich and famous partying their butts off make for an interesting setting to say the least. sunday turned out to be a beautiful, sunny day so we headed to the beach after brunch (again, at the meetinghouse). in observance of a hampton's post beach tradition, we drove up 27 to a place called cyril's and had a couple of their signature drinks, called bbcs, a particularly formidable concoction when you elect to add an extra shot of rum floating on top. we did. it was nap time again. that night was once more to the talkhouse with all of our friends and another 5:30am bedtime. we got up and drove home around 12:30 the next day and i was home safely by 11:00 monday night. it was an awesome, memorable weekend. (ps. that's tim and his son, gus, enjoying our day at the beach.)
somehow, the event scheduling gods smiled on us over labor day weekend and the kitchen staff was lucky enough to get three days off in a row. yay! being adventurous and insane, i decided to take the opportunity to drive up to the hamptons with a friend to visit timmy and douggy and send the summer out in style. leaving after work on friday put me there at around 4:00 in the morning, but a short night's sleep had everyone primed for a good day of vacationing. less than favorable weather, however, killed any ideas of a day at the beach. this gave us the chance, though, to go exploring. we drove up to montauk, went to the lighthouse, hit a few bars and restaurants in town and along the way and had a really awesome day getting to enjoy being tourists. after a week spent working at the meetinghouse back in july, it was really nice to finally to get s
ome free time up in the playground of new york's rich and famous. the highlight of the first day, though, was absolutely an awesome restaurant called the surf lodge. we sat on their giant patio overlooking the water, drank really expensive margaritas, listened to a fantastic female r&b singer, and watched the sun come out, promising good weather for sunday. the place itself is a perfect example of hamptons shabby chic and apparently the chef was one of the contestants on top chef, though we didn't eat having filled up on fried food and montauk's coolest dive bar earlier in the day. by 6:00, however, we were pretty much completely drunk and tired so we headed home for a short five hour nap. ha! o
ne of the nice things about amagansett (and the hamptons in general) is that the bars stay open until four, so you can start late and end late. anyway, we enjoyed a post nap dinner at the meetinghouse and then headed over to talkhouse, the strangest dive bar i've ever found...great bands, low ceilings, pictures of nude models and all of the famous bands who've played there over the years, and the creme de la cre
me of new york's rich and famous partying their butts off make for an interesting setting to say the least. sunday turned out to be a beautiful, sunny day so we headed to the beach after brunch (again, at the meetinghouse). in observance of a hampton's post beach tradition, we drove up 27 to a place called cyril's and had a couple of their signature drinks, called bbcs, a particularly formidable concoction when you elect to add an extra shot of rum floating on top. we did. it was nap time again. that night was once more to the talkhouse with all of our friends and another 5:30am bedtime. we got up and drove home around 12:30 the next day and i was home safely by 11:00 monday night. it was an awesome, memorable weekend. (ps. that's tim and his son, gus, enjoying our day at the beach.)
