East End Clambakes

Currently waiting 30+ minutes on 2 clam rolls and a flounder wrap. Unreal. Not to mention now extremely late for our fishing charter.

I was here 2 yrs ago and dropped by today as well. Both time I thought the good was excellent. There’s a little outside patio that isn’t fancy, but with clean and relatively new outdoor furniture. They are 2 for 2 in my book. I brought friends here and no one was disappointed. Value-​wise, about the same as other places. It is the Hamptons, After all

What a waste of a great location and fresh seafood.
This (expensive) seafood shack is located on a major thoroughfare. It is has all the traffic in the Southampton world driving past it. Why was it empty when we went there on a hot summer weekend?
Let me give you one great reason: The service is an abomination. Not just because the food is pricey and one should expect competent service to go along with it. The service was abhorrent, appalling, atrocious, horrendous, horrid, horrifying, and many other words that one can find in the thesaurus.
My girlfriend does not eat shellfish — she is allergic. So we walked up to the hostess/​cashier — a young (seemingly) Eastern European woman — and asked what non-​shellfish options were worth exploring. She had no idea. Not only did she confess to not having tasted the fish on the menu, she acted like the question was burdensome. Each subsequent question was met with another round of eye rolling. I felt like reaching across the counter, wringing her neck, and yelling «Why are you ruining your owner’s business???»
The food was actually pretty decent. For $ 15 or so bucks, I would have liked more than six or seven clam strips on my roll, and maybe a little less greasy, but the roll and all its component parts were definitely fresh. My girlfriend opted for tuna, and it was moister than she was expecting (thank goodness for low expectations!) The New England clam chowder was rich, salty and clammy (all in good ways), but the bacon was limp; it needed a few more minutes of rendering before the wet ingredients were added.
If I had it my way, I would buy the place (with the money I don’t have), teach amazing customer service to the employees, and then bask in the glow of good food and happy customers. Or maybe the owner will bring me in to give a lesson on making customers happy…

Barely edible. Chewy fried clams, over-mayo’d lobster rolls, don’t come here unless you have to.

I have driven by this place many a time without stopping during visits to The Hamptons. But I have always noticed it when I drove by and filed a note in the back of my mind to stop in and try it sometime. Well today was that day.
Not bad, but not great. Overpriced platters dominate the menu board overhead behind the service counter; however, that (overpriced) is most oftentimes the case with most Hamptons area restaurants — especially seafood joints.
I opted for the clam strip basket and a coke which came to about 17 bucks and change. The basket was plentiful enough and piping hot: adequately fried Clam strips, crinkle cut fries, small side salad (garnished with a tomato slice); lemon wedge; plus a tiny side of slaw (round things out nicely). Everything was good and the overall presentation was spot on. But, again, not great.
There are numerous and perhaps better roadside dive seafood joints situated between E. Hampton and Montauk (i.e. near Hither Hills State Park /​Amagansett); however, those places are several minutes farther up the road well past the town of East Hampton.
So I will probably stop here again sometime in the future for a quick bite en route from LaGuardia to Wainscott.

The seafood at this road stop shack is terrible and highly overpriced. Staff is less then friendly and somewhat ambivalent to the bad food they are slinging. I guess back in the day this place must have been better based on some of the articles on the walls but as of late I can’t see how anyone would rate this above «really bad». Avoid.

Meh. I tasted the lobster roll, and it was too ground up for my taste, i like chunks of meat with a little mayo/​oil. I got the salad with seared tuna. It was just lettuce with a nice portion of tuna. The prices are up there, and i pretend they are warrented because the seafood is local but i doubt it. The girl who takes and delivers your order is nice but seems overwhelmed. Better rolls to be found in the city.

East End Clambake was the perfect end to my first Hampton’s day trip!
We spent the day at a public access beach and walking around Southampton, and we couldn’t go back to NYC without some seafood. The two suggestions we got was Sliver’s on Main Street and East End Clambake, which is on the way back to the city. Sliver’s was closed, but even if it wasn’t, it had a lobster roll for $ 36, so off we went to the Clambake.
This shack is a really casual restaurant with mostly take out or quick dining on the 4 – 5 tables outside. The lobster roll was pretty large, on good bread, and had a good amount of tail meat, but needed a little more flavor. The fried shrimp, clam strips, and flounder were all great, especially with the tartar sauce. Also, the corn on the cob was cooked perfectly and sweet!
While we were eating, two families met up for dinner and brought their own bloody mary’s in a pitcher to accompany their seafood. So, while their kids ran around, they drank, ate, and laughed! Brilliant!