The Hamptons’ Best Bakeries, Cheese Shops and Pantry Specialists
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The Hamptons’ Best Bakeries, Cheese Shops and Pantry Specialists

The places that turn a basic grocery run into a highly edited provisions tour. Find serious bread, local cheese, preserves, olive oil, pastries, prepared salads and beautifully packaged pantry goods for beach picnics, house gifts and dinners assembled rather than cooked.

From Montauk's surf-chic shoreline to Gatsby-coded Gold Coast castles, Long Island is the East Coast's most underrated luxury escape — and yes, I've stayed at all of these (it's research, babe). I hand-picked the properties that hit every aesthetic — coastal grandmother, wellness girlie, dark academia, old-money Americana — so you can stop doom-scrolling Instagram and start booking. IYKYK.

look, sometimes you just need to cry, and the question is where. not your apartment (your roommates will ask if you're okay), not the subway (though respect to everyone who has cried on the L train), not a coffee shop (the ambient indie folk playlist will somehow make it worse). brooklyn has a specific geography for emotional processing that new york doesn't talk about enough — waterfront piers where the wind gives you a reason to have wet eyes, a 478-acre victorian cemetery where nobody is surprised you're sad, a botanic garden where crying next to the cherry blossoms is basically fine art, and a boardwalk at the end of the earth on a cold tuesday in november where you can be as loud as you want because the ocean doesn't care. this guide is not a joke — these are genuinely the best places in brooklyn to feel something, let it move through you, and come out the other side.