Hamptons Weekend Getaway: Amagansett to Bridgehampton
Amelia K. Hamilton
The best East End weekends are not complicated. They are usually one good place to sleep, one good table, and enough room between the two to let the day breathe. If you are putting a weekend together, here is a pairing that already works, and the practical detail you need to book it.
Where You Sleep: The Roundtree, Amagansett
The Roundtree sits in Amagansett, near the quiet end of the South Fork, where the Hamptons stop performing and start being a place people actually live. It is small, personal, and built around the idea that a hotel should feel like a house you were lent rather than a lobby you passed through. Gardens, quiet, and a short run to the ocean.
That is the base. What follows is what to do with your evening.
Where You Eat: Nourish, Bridgehampton
Nourish is a restaurant in Bridgehampton, about fifteen minutes west on Montauk Highway without traffic. It is worth being precise about this, because it changes how you plan the day. Nourish is not the hotel’s dining room and it is not on the property. It is an independent restaurant that shares the Roundtree name and sensibility, sitting on the Bridgehampton–Sag Harbor Turnpike with its own dining room, its own bar, and a garden that is the seat to ask for in late summer.
Chef Dewa Wijaya cooks from the farms a few miles north, in a style trained classically in French technique and shaped by years in Bali and the Caribbean. The menu follows the season closely enough that a plate in August and the same plate in October are not really the same plate.
The Fifteen Minutes in Between
The drive is the good part. Montauk Highway west out of Amagansett runs you past East Hampton and Wainscott and into Bridgehampton, and it is farm stands and hedgerows most of the way. Leave a little early and the road becomes part of the evening rather than a thing to get through.
If you want to make an afternoon of it, Bridgehampton is walkable. The Main Street stretch is a short block of shops and galleries, the farm stands north of the village are at their best from July through September, and the beaches are ten minutes south. Arrive at five, wander until seven, sit down for dinner.
Priority Reservations for Roundtree Guests
This is the practical piece and the reason to plan the two together. Guests of The Roundtree, Amagansett have priority access to reservations at Nourish. In a Hamptons summer, when the good tables in the village go weeks out, that is not a small courtesy. It is the difference between eating where you meant to and eating where there was room.
Mention your stay when you book. Reservations otherwise go through Resy, or by phone and text at (631) 600-8852.
How to Plan It
A weekend that works, in the order you would actually do it:
Book the room first. The Roundtree is small, which is the point of it and also the constraint. Weekend availability in summer moves quickly.
Book the table next, and say you are staying at the hotel. Priority access only helps you if you use it. Friday and Saturday evenings fill first.
Give yourself the afternoon. Fifteen minutes is the drive, not the plan. The village, the farm stands and the beach all sit inside that window.
Ask for the garden if the weather is holding. It is the best seat Nourish has for about four months of the year.
Reserving
Nourish serves dinner, and evening tables are the ones that go first. Reservations run through Resy, or call or text (631) 600-8852. If you are staying at The Roundtree, say so when you book.
