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The Crow's Nest
The Crow's Nest opened in 2010 when hotelier Sean MacPherson - owner of The Bowery Hotel, The Jane, The Maritime, and a quiet empire of Los Angeles cocktail bars - bought 3.35 waterfront acres on the western edge of Lake Montauk and turned the bait-shack inn that had stood there for decades into a candlelit Mediterranean dining room with rooms upstairs. Fifteen seasons later, it is the single most recognized name in Hamptons hospitality and the room every visiting New Yorker tries to book first.
Duryea's Lobster Deck
Duryea's has fed Montauk since 1923. The original Duryea family ran a fishing fleet and wholesale lobster pound from the small bayfront parcel on Tuthill Road for three generations, and when Marc Rowan - billionaire Apollo founder and Montauk house owner - bought the operation in 2014, he had the wisdom to leave almost everything alone. The wholesale lobster bins still sit in the old white market building. The deck is still the deck. The view from the hillside out across Fort Pond Bay toward Gardiner's Island and Block Island Sound is still the best free thing in the Hamptons.
Gigi's Montauk
Gigi's Montauk opened on June 16, 2025 as the new dining flagship of Gurney's Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa - the cliffside hotel on Old Montauk Highway that has anchored the high end of the village's hospitality for half a century. The room replaces the resort's previous Scarpetta outpost with a lively, social, sharing-driven coastal Italian concept designed around the only true oceanfront fine-dining views on the South Fork. Floor-to-ceiling windows open onto the Atlantic on one side and a terrace deck that descends toward the beach on the other.
Mavericks Montauk
Mavericks opened in 2023 on the western shore of Fort Pond, taking over a long-running waterfront site and rebuilding it into the modern dry-aged steakhouse the East End had been quietly missing for a generation. Chef-partner Jeremy Blutstein - formerly the chef at Almond in Bridgehampton and the much-loved Highway Restaurant in East Hampton - runs a kitchen built around a single wood-fired hearth and a temperature-controlled aging room visible from the dining room. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame Fort Pond on the western side, where the sunset arrives behind the dunes around 8pm in July.
The Surf Lodge
The Surf Lodge opened in 2008 on the eastern edge of Fort Pond and effectively rewrote what a summer weekend in Montauk could feel like. Founder Jayma Cardoso and a rotating roster of partners transformed a tired fisherman's motel into a barefoot-luxury weekend compound: thirty-four rooms above the water, a sunset-facing deck that became a Sunday-afternoon ritual, a free concert series that books names from Leon Bridges to The Strokes, and a restaurant that turned the town into a destination for a generation of downtown New Yorkers.