Scarpetta Beach

Positioned directly on the Atlantic at Gurney's Montauk Resort & Seawater Spa, Scarpetta Beach operates where the view and the kitchen are expected to carry equal weight; and, according to a New York Times review that praised the food as genuinely matching the setting, the kitchen holds its own. The menu runs roughly two-thirds seafood to one-third meat, a ratio that makes sense given the location: Montauk's fishing heritage shapes what arrives on the plate as much as the LDV Hospitality group's Italian framework shapes how it's cooked.

The cooking style is modern Italian with a coastal lean; lightly handled fish, housemade pasta, and preparations that don't bury the primary ingredient. Halibut en croûte with salsa verde and endive, black bass with summer squash, and tagliatelle with lobster represent the kind of menu logic at work here: classical Italian technique applied to what the East End actually produces. Appetizers were priced in the $13–$19 range at time of review, with pastas running $24–$32, placing Scarpetta Beach firmly in the upscale tier for the Hamptons corridor, where that positioning is neither unusual nor accidental.

The room itself is modern and airy, with an outdoor deck that faces the ocean; a configuration that makes the restaurant as much a destination for the setting as for the food. That dual appeal is common enough in resort dining, but the Times review suggested the kitchen, under the direction of head chefs Jon Oh and Jorge Espinoza, doesn't treat the scenery as a substitute for substance. For a property like Gurney's, which draws a well-traveled summer crowd with high baseline expectations, that distinction matters.

Scarpetta Beach fits a specific moment in the Montauk calendar: summer evenings when the light off the water is reason enough to be there, and the pasta is reason enough to stay through dessert. It draws from the same LDV Hospitality brand as the original Manhattan Scarpetta, which means the operational standards and Italian-American fine dining sensibility travel intact from the city to the shore.