Mavericks Montauk

The Restaurant

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 menu reads steakhouse but cooks Long Island. Dry-aged ribeye for two from a Hudson Valley single-farm program, a 14oz porterhouse cut from cattle finished on Montauk grass, a wood-grilled local swordfish steak, raw-bar towers stacked with East End oysters, peekytoe crab, and littlenecks pulled from boats Blutstein knows by name. The side dishes - wood-roasted Montauk corn with miso butter, charred broccolini, hen-of-the-woods mushrooms with brown butter - show the chef's actual range. The bread service alone has a following.

The dining room is the East Hamptons modern-steakhouse vocabulary done with restraint: dark wood, leather banquettes, a long marble bar facing the pond, a single open hearth radiating heat across the back wall. The wine list is roughly four hundred references with serious depth in California cabernet and a working Burgundy section. The cocktail bar opens at 4pm and the sunset terrace fills by 6:30 every Friday from Memorial Day through Columbus Day. For a Montauk business dinner, this is the new default address - and it is the only steakhouse on the East End cooking at this level.