Farm Country Kitchen

Long Island


If you're heading to one of the Forks, make this Riverside gem your lunch stop en route before the road split. Set inconspicuously in a roadside country home you'd ordinarily roll right past, this casual restaurant actually sits idyllically on the Peconic River, serving easy-on-the-wallet salads and sandwiches (more substantial mains at dinner) on a wonderful terrace or outdoors by the river.

Daily-changing gourmet panini and catfish tacos are favorites, but the setting will stick in your memory most.


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