This past weekend, I had the pleasure of being invited out to Shelter Island. I’d never been before and I was going to get to spend some quality time with girlfriends I don’t get to see often…excited? Yes, I was.
Shelter Island is gorgeous…rustic and quaint and so close to the city! You should really go for a weekend if you haven’t already…the drive out along the North Fork is lovely or you can train it to the ferry. Just the fact that you get to ride a ferry is reason enough to go.
First item on the agenda of our girly weekend was a visit to Sunset Beach. The hotel is only open for the summer season (as is much of the island) and is trying to be a sort of French, boutique style beach hotel with an oceanfront bisto restaurant.
We were there on a Friday, whereas most people were still at work so it was nice and quiet. This meant a pretty empty beach and free parking which was definitely a plus (we also were thanking ourselves when we drove by on Saturday and the place was PACKED and mildly a scene of fabulous drunk people).
Check out how cute it is!
Most beachtown hotels are high priced and this is definitely one of them…weekday rates start around $400 so you can imagine how expensive a weekend there might be. After a few hours baking on the beach, we decided to submerge ourselves in the luxury of the place and have some overpriced lunch. Directly on top of the bar/restaurant pictured above is a rooftop deck with more tables for dining.
Amazing views! We were honestly just so happy to be in such a pretty place, spending time with each other and not at work, we didn’t care that everything on the menu was around $25. That is a lot for lunch…even by New York standards. So what did we do? We each ordered an entree and split a bottle of wine. 
I went with the Salad Nicoise which was fairly traditionally prepared with all of the usual suspects; olive oil canned tuna, boiled potatoes, haricot verts and tomato. But, they jazzed it up with fava beans, slivers of radish, fennel and artichoke hearts, a hard boiled egg and a whole caper berry!
It really was quite tasty and fresh. A perfect light meal before sitting on the beach for the rest of the afternoon. We didn’t end our dining endeavours with lunch…we ventured into Greenport on Friday night for dinner at The Frisky Oyster. Remember when I was there back in April when the bf and I toured the wineries? Check out my last adventure to the North Fork:
The Frisky Oyster delivered another delicious meal – will share details tomorrow!
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