Long Island Restaurant Week, November 2026: South Fork Lunch Guide

Every participating East Hampton restaurant in this year's fall Long Island Restaurant Week is serving dinner, and none is serving the $25 lunch. Drive twenty minutes west to Southampton Village and all three participants there offer a two-course lunch at that price. Sag Harbor's newest dining room offers it too. The 20th fall edition runs Sunday, Nov. 1 through Sunday, Nov. 8, and the way the South Fork signed up says something about November out here. It's a week built for weekday afternoons and early dinners, and the towns that kept their lunch service are the ones that fit it best.

The East Hampton Star reported the dates and the first South Fork list on Oct. 22. The official Suffolk County roster adds each restaurant's price levels, and that's where the split shows up.

The Rules Favor a Tuesday

Every participant offers a $25 two-course lunch, three-course dinners at $30, $40 or $48, or both. Each restaurant has to offer at least three choices per course and serve the prix fixe all night on every night it's open, or through lunch hours. Saturday is the exception. The prix fixe typically ends at 7 p.m. that night, according to the Restaurant Week FAQ.

This year's dates run Sunday to Sunday, so only one Saturday falls inside the week, Nov. 7, and its prix fixe window closes early. That leaves the full value on the other seven nights and the lunches in between, which is why the lunch tier decides so much of how the week plays out by town.

To mark the 20th anniversary, the organizers are giving away 20 gift cards worth $100 each, redeemable at the participating restaurant of the winner's choice. Registration opened at midnight on Monday, Oct. 26, on the Restaurant Week site and closes Nov. 9 at 11:59 p.m.

The South Fork, Town by Town

Read the table by meal and it splits into two halves. Four South Fork participants offer the $25 lunch, and all four are in Southampton Village or Sag Harbor. Water Mill, Bridgehampton and East Hampton signed up only for dinner.

Southampton Village Keeps the Daytime Table

Southampton offers the most variety at lunch. Le Charlot is the French option and Union Southampton the newest name on the village's list. Shippy's is the oldest by decades. 27east reported that the Windmill Lane bar and restaurant has been in the village since 1954, when William "Shippy" Casgrain opened it. It reopened after a renovation under new owner John Betts, who grew up in North Sea. The renovation kept the schnitzel at the center of the menu and added new items like a smash burger and a Coopers Beach fish sandwich. Executive chef Burton Pratt runs an expanded kitchen. Betts told 27east his goal was "to be that place that could provide comfort and familiarity and great taste" for the next 50 years. A $25 schnitzel-house lunch on a gray November Wednesday is the kind of meal Restaurant Week was built for.

Sag Harbor's Newest Room Covers Both Meals

Miracle opened in June at 29 Main Street, in the former Vin Sur Vingt space, according to The East Hampton Star. It comes from Michael Nolan, a Sag Harbor native who co-founded Fresno in East Hampton and Miracle Bar and Grill in Manhattan. Its first Restaurant Week puts it at both the $25 lunch and $40 dinner levels, the only South Fork participant with that combination.

When Miracle opened, the Star listed lunch on Monday, Thursday and Friday, brunch on weekends and dinner Wednesday through Sunday. Those were June hours, so check the current schedule before planning a midweek lunch around it. The regular dinner menu at opening included truffle-potato gnocchi, seared sea scallops, striped bass and pan-roasted duck breast. Nolan's other South Fork restaurant, Fresno, is on the list at $40, so the same family of kitchens has a dinner in East Hampton and a lunch-or-dinner choice on Main Street. LT Burger fills out Sag Harbor at the $40 dinner level.

East Hampton Signed Up for Dinner

East Hampton's four participants are all evening tables, and they span the widest price range of any town. Frankie's Fabulous Italiano is the only South Fork restaurant offering the $30 tier, alongside $40. Fresno sits at $40, and Nick & Toni's and The Palm are both at $48.

The Palm is the one East Hampton participant whose Restaurant Week menu could be read in full. It includes the Palm Caesar, shrimp sauté, pappardelle Bolognese and house-made tiramisu. For the other three, the Suffolk roster links to their menus, and those are the most current word on dishes.

Frankie's already runs weekly half-price nights outside the promotion: half off pasta on Mondays, appetizers on Wednesdays, pizza on Thursdays and chicken Parmesan on Sundays, per the Star's Oct. 1 food column. In East Hampton, Restaurant Week is one more weeknight value in a town already full of them.

Water Mill and Bridgehampton follow East Hampton's dinner-only pattern, all at $48. Bistro Été, the Bridgehampton Inn Restaurant and Elaia Estiatorio round out the middle of the South Fork. Bistro Été also has its own fall program. Its Fall Edit started Sept. 22 with Wine Down Wednesday, Caviar After Dark, a fall prix fixe and Foie Gras Friday with a complimentary wine pairing, Spark Hamptons reported.

West of Southampton, the Menus Are Posted

The western Hamptons signed up in force, and more of those restaurants posted readable menus before the week starts:

• Cowfish, Hampton Bays, $40: Hampton oysters, miso-glazed salmon, braised short rib
• R.AIRE at The Hampton Maid, Hampton Bays, $48: crispy artichokes, salmon, paella de marisco
• RUMBA, Hampton Bays, $40: corn tamale, coconut-crusted local fluke, Dominican ribs
• Flora, Westhampton Beach, $48: butternut-squash arancini, wild-mushroom risotto, pecan-crusted salmon
• Jack's Grill, Speonk, $48: shrimp skewers, rigatoni Norma, Faroe Island salmon

Sundays on the Bay in Hampton Bays, Fauna in Westhampton Beach and Stone Creek Restaurant in East Quogue are all on the list at $48. Westhampton Beach Brew & Grille on Main Street offers the $25 lunch and $40 dinner, which makes it the western counterpart to Miracle.

Montauk Runs Its Own Prix Fixe Calendar

No Montauk restaurant appears on the official Suffolk roster as of this week. The East End's longest-running prix fixe is there anyway. Gigi's at Gurney's started a three-course fall and winter menu at $65 on Oct. 12. It's served Sunday through Thursday until April 15, holidays excluded, and Sunset Hour at Gigi's Bar runs 4 to 6 p.m. on the same nights, per Spark Hamptons. Restaurant Week lasts eight days. Gigi's menu covers the whole winter but skips Friday and Saturday nights, which Restaurant Week covers, early cutoff on Saturday and all.

Almond in Bridgehampton is also skipping Restaurant Week and running its own weeknight prices during its 25th anniversary year. It offers a $39 two-course prix fixe all night Monday through Thursday, a $25 burger and beer on Tuesdays and $25 bottomless mussels and fries on Wednesdays. It's open Monday through Saturday and closed Sunday. Business Insider's October guide to the off-season quotes a year-round East End resident who names Almond and Bistro Été as restaurants that stay open all year.

A Week Built Around the Afternoon

Put together, the list suggests a few ways to plan. For a weekday lunch, there's Le Charlot, Shippy's or Union in Southampton Village, or Miracle on Main Street in Sag Harbor. For a weeknight dinner, the full spread runs from Frankie's at $30 to Nick & Toni's at $48. Saturday, Nov. 7, needs a 6 p.m. reservation if the prix fixe is the point.

There's also a reason to stay in East Hampton the Thursday before. Park Place Wines and Liquors holds its Spain After Dark class on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 6 p.m. Tickets are $45 and nonrefundable, the Star reported.

At At The Firm, we spend November on the South Fork as well. If the quieter months have you wondering about a house you could use all year, between the $25 lunches and the long weeknight dinners, our Hamptons team is glad to talk it through. Request a private consultation.