Slow Food Meets The Fast Lane In The Hamptons

There is a new restaurant in the space formely known as the Maidstone Arms: The Living Room. The Living Room will be the standard bearer for the Slow Food movement in the Hamptons. The comfortable 74-seat restaurant will have the subtle Scandinavian influence of Ljungberg, with antique and modern Swedish furnishings and a color scheme inspired by the blues and mosses of reindeer country. However, sustainable food producers will be center stage. Executive chef James Carpenter uses the Slow Food process to “cook with the seasons," somehow coming up with mouth-watering menus of cuisine he calls “New American, with a Scandinavian twist." Signature dishes include house-cured smoked salmon tarte flambée with crème fraiche and capers, Scandinavian classics such as Toast Skagen and exquisite desserts like spring strawberry rhubarb crisp with homemade honey vanilla gelato, and Catapano farm goat cheese tarte with homemade lingonberry sorbet. For more information call 631-267-6399 or visit www.themaidstone.com/the-living-room