Walk the docks in Greenport this month and you'll notice a restaurant scene shaped by both returning names and new arrivals.
Claudio's Marina spent the last couple of summers letting an outside hospitality group run the show. Gansevoort Hospitality brought in two concepts, Charlie Boy and Common Country East. Neither is returning this season. In their place, the marina returned to Claudio's Restaurant, the name the space carried before it briefly became Claudio's Tavern & Grill. Same building, same waterfront, a name the North Fork has known since before most of us were born.
The sections that follow trace some of those changes across restaurants, farms, and the summer calendar.
What Left, What Came Back
Claudio's has been a fixture on Greenport's working waterfront since 1870, and the same family owned it for 147 years before selling in 2018. In a Patch report, managing partner Celeste Fierro described Claudio's as staying "deeply connected to the community that made it what it is." Claudio's Waterfront reopened for weekend lunch service starting April 24. Claudio's Restaurant followed on May 1 with shared plates, tavern favorites, and on-site pizza from Peter's Pizzeria.
Saylor Beach House took over the old Crabby Jerry's and Common Country space, offering Mediterranean-inspired dockside dining built around golden-hour cocktails. Le Shack Beach, a boho-inspired boutique, opened alongside it for Memorial Day weekend.
Here's the shorthand version of what changed at the marina this year:
| Concept | Status for 2026 | What defines it |
|---|---|---|
| Charlie Boy | Not returning | Outside hospitality group concept, one season |
| Common Country East | Not returning | Outside hospitality group concept, one season |
| Claudio's Restaurant | Reopened May 1 | Reverted to a name the North Fork has known for generations |
| Saylor Beach House | New for 2026 | Mediterranean-inspired dockside dining |
| Le Shack Beach | New for 2026 | Boutique tied directly to the marina's own identity |
Other Food Businesses on the North Fork
Eddie's at Silversands opened May 15 and is named for a former owner of the property, who was also an oyster farmer. The restaurant serves seafood and wood-fired Neapolitan pizza and has an on-site bocce court.
In New Suffolk, Minnow at the Galley Ho is another North Fork restaurant. It's the first sustainable seafood restaurant to arrive on the North Fork, and the specificity runs all the way through the operation. The fish is line and trap caught, the silverware is thrifted, and the oysters come from Peeko, described on the menu simply as neighbors, because that's what they are. Anker, which soft-opened in Greenport this spring, adds to a growing roster of contemporary spots in the village, which now holds more than 40 eateries within a ten-minute walk of Mitchell Park Marina.
Restaurants are only one part of the North Fork's food scene; its longstanding farms are another.
Longstanding Farm Stands
Wickham's Fruit Farm in Cutchogue traces its roots to the 1660s and has been run by the Wickham family for close to two hundred years. It's home to the North Fork's oldest cider mill, dating to 1902, and right now, in mid-August, is peak peach season on its 200 fruit-bearing acres. Briermere Farms in Riverhead has been under the McCombe family since the early 1960s, and its cream pies still draw a line out the door most weekends. The pies are made from scratch on-site with fruit grown a few hundred feet away.
That continuity is the actual product. A pie from a farm that's been baking the same recipe for six decades tastes different to a regular than a pie from somewhere new, even if you couldn't say exactly how. The North Fork's food economy includes both that kind of long-running farm continuity and a restaurant scene whose names and offerings can change from season to season.
What's Actually Ripe This Week
If you're deciding where to point the car this weekend, here's what's real right now:
- Peaches are at their peak at Wickham's Fruit Farm in Cutchogue, part of a North Fork peach season that generally spans mid-July through mid-September at the region's pick-your-own orchards.
- Bhavana Berries' organic U-Pick blueberries are closing out their season, open to the public only through late August, so this is close to the last call.
- Harbes Family Farm's Annual Watermelon Festival runs Saturday and Sunday, August 22 and 23, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Mattituck, with watermelon eating contests at 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. both days and free live music in the courtyard from 1 to 5 p.m.
- Lavender by the Bay in East Marion keeps its farm shop open through the season, stocked with fresh and dried bouquets, oils, and sachets even as the fields move past peak bloom.
That's a real calendar, not a generic one, and it changes week to week the same way the restaurant lineup changes season to season.
The Thread Running Through Both
Together, these restaurants and farms are part of the North Fork's food scene, where long-running family operations and newer additions exist side by side.
If you're already living the North Fork rhythm and find yourself thinking about what's next for your own place here, whether that's a move within the area or a conversation about timing, Bobby Rehani is worth a call. Let's Connect.
