The list of genuinely new places in Amagansett this summer is short. Four names, one of which is technically in Bridgehampton. That is not a complaint. It is the point.
If you have lived here long enough to remember when Hampton Chutney sat in the corner of Amagansett Square, you already know the hamlet does not churn. Restaurants change hands slowly, and when they do, the new operator is usually already down the road. That pattern is on display this season in a way that reshapes how a Saturday moves from coffee to lunch to dinner without ever crossing Route 27.
The Piccinnini map is the actual news
The most useful thing to understand about Amagansett in 2026 is that the family behind The Clam Bar quietly built a daytime anchor a mile up the road. Husband-and-wife duo John and Kelly Piccinnini, owners of the iconic Clam Bar and most recently The Corner in Sag Harbor, opened the doors of SETT Coffee in Amagansett bringing a thoughtfully curated coffee experience to the East End. The shop sits on Main Street and runs high-quality coffee, matcha, fresh baked pastries and a selection of curated provisions available for takeout, plus a partnership with The Mom Club on a guest-speaker series for parents.
That coffee counter is one node in a bigger set. Husband and wife duo John and Kelly Piccinnini are taking over operations of the Sag Harbor's iconic The Corner property at 1 Main Street — and they are keeping the beloved restaurant's original name. The local couple, who also own The Clam Bar and the new Sett Coffee, both located in Amagansett, now sit behind a morning stop, a lunch counter on Napeague, and a Sag Harbor dinner room. If you have wondered why your weekend rotation feels tighter this year without you doing anything, that is why.
What actually opened
Beyond SETT, the real Main Street change is in the Square. Doubles, at 12 Amagansett Square, is the newest essential addition to Amagansett's dining landscape. Brothers Daniel and Evan Bennett (who also own Mimi and Babs in Greenwich Village) opened the Caribbean-influenced spot in the space formerly occupied by Hampton Chutney Co., which relocated to East Hampton after two decades. Two decades in one corner is worth pausing on. The Square holds tenants a long time, so a turnover there resets muscle memory for anyone who reflexively parks in that lot.
The other opening is not in Amagansett at all, though it lives under an Amagansett name. A new wellness-focused restaurant, Nourish, is opening in Bridgehampton from Roundtree Amagansett owner Sylvia Wong. Taking over the former Arthur & Sons space, Nourish will be led by chef Dewa Wijaya, a Bali-born, French-trained chef known for blending lighter preparations with bold global flavors. The menu leans local where it can, including grilled Acabonac Farms ribeye steak. Worth knowing if guests are staying at The Roundtree and asking where the hotel's kitchen sends people.
Here is the compact version to keep on the fridge:
| Spot | Where | What it replaced or added |
|---|---|---|
| SETT Coffee | Main Street, Amagansett | New daytime counter from the Clam Bar owners |
| Doubles | 12 Amagansett Square | Former Hampton Chutney Co. space |
| LUNCH Lobster Roll | 1980 Montauk Highway | Returned for 2026 on April 24 |
| Nourish | Bridgehampton | Former Arthur & Sons; from The Roundtree's Sylvia Wong |
The rotation that did not change, and why that matters
The reason four openings feel like enough is that the weekly rhythm around them is unusually durable. LUNCH Lobster Roll (1980 Montauk Highway, Amagansett, NY 11930) has announced their Amagansett location will open for the 2026 season on Friday, April 24. The restaurant will operate Thursday through Monday beginning at 11:45 a.m. during the spring season, expanding to seven days a week in mid-June as summer approaches. If you have lived here more than a season or two, you already treat that April date as a marker. It is, as one profile of the place put it, a roadside restaurant so iconic that its seasonal opening is treated as a civic event.
The Friday farmers market at Amagansett Square is the other calendar anchor. It runs Fridays until Sept 26, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, with gluten-free bakers, Peconic Farms, and live music in the courtyard. It is not a destination market on the scale of Montauk's, which is fine. It is a weekly errand you can finish before lunch.
Amber Waves keeps the daily side of that same idea going. Amber Waves is a 501(c)(3) non-profit farm, market, café and bakery on Main Street in Amagansett on Long Island. We offer farm fresh produce, hot meals made with our seasonal ingredients, outdoor educational experiences, and events for kids and families hosted in our fields. Newcomers sometimes assume it is a boutique grocer that opened during the pandemic. It is not. The market is located in downtown Amagansett at the site of the iconic Amagansett Farmers Market, first founded by Pat Struk on a card table on her front lawn in 1954. Pat retired and sold the market and farmland in 2008, and we opened the market as our own in 2016 after Eli Zabar and East End Food each operated there in the interim. That card-table lineage is why the parking lot feels the way it does on a Sunday morning.
A working weekend rotation
- Friday morning: SETT for coffee, then the Amagansett Square farmers market before it thins out at 2 p.m.
- Friday lunch: LUNCH on Napeague, before the mid-June expansion when the line pushes past the shed
- Saturday morning: Amber Waves for pastries, produce for the week, and a bench in the field
- Saturday afternoon: Life-Saving Station tour, 11 to 3
- Saturday dinner: Doubles at the Square, if you can get in during the first summer of a new opening
- Sunday: repeat, or drive to Nourish in Bridgehampton if you want a real dinner out
One block, two eras
The building most locals underrate is at 160 Atlantic Avenue. The Amagansett U.S. Life-Saving & Coast Guard Station Museum opened its 2026 season on May 2 with a talk by East Hampton Town Historian Hugh King on Amagansett from 1900 to 1920. It keeps standard weekend hours the rest of the summer: Open May through October Every Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Docent tours are available during open hours or by appointment.
The reason to go once, even if you have driven past it a hundred times: The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum, built in 1902 and opened as a museum in 2017 after a comprehensive restoration, opens for the 2025 season on Saturday at 11 a.m. with tours and a performance of sea chanteys, followed by a wealth of events continuing into the fall. The station was operated by the United States Life-Saving Service until 1915. The Coast Guard then took over its operation, and it continued to be used until 1944. The building itself only came back to its original spot in 2007. Local resident Joel Carmichael bought the station and moved it to nearby Bluff Road where it had a new life as his family's residence. In 2007 the Carmichael family donated the Amagansett Life-Saving Station to the Town of East Hampton and it was moved back to its exact original location on Atlantic Avenue.
The event to plan around, and to buy tickets for early, is the Lobster Bake fund-raiser for the Amagansett Life-Saving Station. It sells out every year. There is also a June commemoration of the strangest local footnote in twentieth-century American history: On the night of June 12, 1942, a U-boat submarine approached Atlantic Avenue Beach, and four men came ashore with explosives and plans to blow up factories and other sites. Seaman John Cullen from the Amagansett station came upon them on his patrol, and there ensued a chain of events that culminated in the capture and military tribunal of the four men — and four others who had landed off Florida — before they could carry out their plan. That beach is a five-minute walk from Indian Wells. Locals forget.
What the short list actually tells you
Amagansett's dining scene is small on purpose, and it is getting quieter, not louder. A writeup of the 2026 openings summed it up bluntly: Compare that confidence to the Bridgehampton dining scene's emphasis on spectacle, or to Sag Harbor's restaurant row, where the density of options creates a competitive energy. In Amagansett, Il Buco al Mare doesn't need to compete because there is nobody to compete with. Consequently, the restaurant exists in a category of one, and it knows it. The same is true of LUNCH. The same is now becoming true of the Piccinnini group's grip on Main Street.
For a resident, that changes the arithmetic. You do not need a running list of new places, because there are not that many. You need to know who owns what, so you can tell when your Friday morning coffee stop, your Sag Harbor Saturday dinner, and your Napeague lunch counter are all quietly the same three people. Now you do.
If you own a home here and are thinking through what this steady, small-operator pattern means for your street, your rental calendar, or the long arc of the market you have been watching for years, Michael Petersohn is happy to talk it through. Request a personal market consultation whenever the timing suits.
