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the former Wei Fun chinese restaurant, which has been vacant for a year after a disastrous attempt at being way fun, is reportedly going to be re-opened as an American restaurant, under the auspices of Ben Krupinski and Joe Perella. (Perhaps in a show of support for Google?) Meanwhile just two miles down the road in Amagansett, the former Café on Main has reopened as D’Canela. Also in Amagansett, the glass fronted restaurant Metta Luna closed last fall and has now reopened with the name Exile. But it’s not clear if that is a temporary affair or a permanent one. The changes described above are all taking place in an area that is about five miles long and five miles wide. These changes consist of goings on in about 1/3 of all the restaurant locations in that area. Fewer changes are taking place in other nearby towns. In Southampton, we have no changes at all yet. And in Sag Harbor everything is so far okay, other than the fact that the four restaurants formerly headed up by Jon Luc, including Madame Tong’s in Southampton, JLX Bistro and Grappa on Main Street in Sag Harbor, and the 55 Steakhouse in East Hampton remain closed pending litigation. But in Bridgehampton, a New York Times blogger and foodie Bruce Buschell says he is going to re-open a restaurant this summer on the site of the Wild Rose on the Sag Harbor Turnpike. And at the Poxabogue Golf Course in Sagaponack, Danny’s Fairway Restaurant is moving out to be replaced by a branch of the Love Lane Kitchen, which is based in Mattituck. There are also changes looming for Montauk, though many of the restaurants in that town have not yet stirred from the long cold winter. The Crow’s Nest, the popular lobster and fish house, in business for 60 years on Lake Montauk, is going to close down and be reopened as an as-yet-unnamed club by
Manhattan club owner Shawn McPherson. Meanwhile, last week, with great fanfare, two other New York restaurateurs announced the soon-to-open club and restaurant Navy Road on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk. The New Yorkers are Franklin Ferguson (Asia de Cuba, Sushi Samba and, in Los Angeles, Social Hollywood) and Frank Davis, a graduate of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Their project, which will take over last year’s popular local bar Sunset Beach, will be a sophisticated sailor suit surfing beach restaurant-bar in a more hip setting, very much like the four year old Surf Lodge, on its own artificial beach right on Fort Pond in the center of town . The two are about a mile apart, but given the popularity of Surf Lodge last year, it’s possible club goers will park along both sides of Industrial Road in that town and walk to either one or the other in opposite directions. Montauk, the loosey goosey surf and fishing town, is apparently going to undergo a serious three pronged “Hampton” invasion this summer, after that scout Surf Lodge proved to be so successful during the past two years. Finally, we must turn our attention again to the popular eatery Della Femina on North Main Street in East Hampton. Last Tuesday, the owner of the restaurant, legendary ad man Jerry Della Femina, was quoted in the New York Post Page Six as saying he was pulling up roots in the Hamptons and moving out before Barack Obama decides to redistribute any more of his wealth. Whether he is serious or not no one knows. But it’s true that he has just listed his oceanfront mansion in East Hampton for sale at $40 million. Can Della Femina continue without Della Femina? Well, gotta go. Time for dinner. I have a reservation somewhere. I think.
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I kept the message on my phone for several days, just because I thought of it as a kind of souvenir of a good time. Perhaps I would run into her. I’d play it for her. She calls me once in awhile. Two days ago, she did. She’s making a half hour documentary about Facebook. Wants to know what people think about it, what they use it for. Would I be willing to be interviewed? “You’re barking up the wrong tree with me,” I said. “I’m really not a Facebook person.” “But you have a Facebook account.” “That’s true, but honestly I came about it by accident. There was somebody I met who I wanted to know more about. Nothing came up on Google. But then I saw they had a Facebook account. So I went there, but I found that I couldn’t access it unless I had an account too. So I got one. Now I get all this stuff. But it just lays there. I never use it.” “Hmm,” she said. “Well, that’s a good story too. And maybe you could just talk about your view of the changes in all the media everywhere.” “I guess I could do that.” “Could I meet you at the office? It would take 10 minutes.” “Sure,” I said. Then I dropped the bomb. “By the way, about a week ago, your cell phone called me at 2:30 in the morning.” “It did?” I explained to her the circumstances. “Until I got my iPhone last year, I had that problem. A button gets pressed. Your phone calls somebody. I had a Blackberry before I had the iPhone. It was a big problem with Blackberry.” “I have a Blackberry. What night was it?” “I’m not sure. But you ought to know. Unless you stay up every night until 2:30 in the morning partying. It sounded like a real good time.” She thought about it. “It was Friday night,” she said. “A St. Patrick’s Day party. I’m real sorry that happened.” “Accepted. But I think it is a sign of the times that some phones do that. Also it was pretty interesting. There was cursing, laughing, shouting, sounded like quite something.” “I think I know exactly when it happened.” “What was that.” “We were in Huntington. They had their parade earlier in the day. Tons of people were around and we were going bar to bar. It took place on the sidewalk. My girlfriend turned the contents of her pocketbook upside down onto the sidewalk. I squatted down to help pick up stuff that was rolling into the gutter.” “It sounded more like it was indoors. But maybe that was because there was just crowds of people out there that night. Did she do this deliberately? Or was it an accident?” “She was looking for her lip gloss. She scrabbled through her pocketbook. Couldn’t find it.” “I know the type. Looking to kiss somebody.” “So she just dumped everything out. That’s what everybody was shouting about.” We made a date for Tuesday, we met in Bridgehampton and she put me in her video. I still have the taped message of what was said in the middle of that night on a sidewalk in Huntington. Anybody know a way to put this on YouTube?