Share House

We live nearby in Amagansett and went last Friday nite around 6 when they were promoting Bai drinks and passed complimentary hors d’oeuvres which were delicious! My brother told me that they had a $ 17 lobster special so we inquired to the hostess and she said yes we have that Thursday — Sunday nite. So we said great and went to sit down and the waiter told us that it was Sunday — Thursday so we were like do you want to stay? We decided to dine elsewhere but vowed to go back the following Sunday when we had a house guest which we did last nite. So this is where the story goes DOWNHILL… (the first piece of misinformation should have been our first clue).
When we arrived we inquired of the bartender (believe ½ manager) as to the lobster special. He said, oh yea, we have it, it’s great comes with three butters, one with chives, one with… Before we sat down, the waitress tells the mgr/​bartender that they dont have lobster so we are wondering whether to stay?! The mgr/​bartender says, oh, i just came on, but let me check. So, okay, he comes back and says yes we have lobster. Okay! So we sit down and we ask how much the lobster dinner is — she says $ 20 (or that is what we thought we heard). But then we checked out the menu and it says Market Price?! We ask again and the waitress says $ 28. We’re like, hugh?! We say we were there last weekend and the hostess said that their lobster special was $ 17 Sun-​Thurs. We ask her to check. She says that she doesn’t have to check — that that is the price. So now we are really wondering whether to stay — we stay cos we are there, the place is cute, and the apps were great last week. We should have left.
We order wine — Sav Blanc — there are 3 white choices — the mgr/​bartender comes over and says that they dont have any full bottles of Sav Blanc but he has several open so if we dont mind he’ll give us one of the bottles that is open and then give us a few glasses from another bottle and we are like okay; that’s fine. Wine was good.
Ordered apps and dinner. {Prices for the Hamptons seemed reasonable. Menu was completly different than the one we saw the week before. Crab cakes w a side of corn relish and supposedly pecan encrusted fried oysters. Crab cakes were good, dont think there were any pecans with the oysters which were luke warm; like they had been cooked previously and warmed up. Dinner entrees were shrimp scampi and seared tuna. Shrimp scampi were a total of 4 with rice. Shrimp was tasty; rice was not hot, more luke warm again. We were the only customers in the restaurant, btw. Seared tuna was served with green and red peppers/​garlic and if you ask me not very complimentary — tasted more like peppers; tuna wasnt well filleted — had some very fatty parts — waitress said sushi grade’ NOT. The mgr/​bartender comes over during the meal, talks to us, we talk about the restaurant; what they are trying to do; make it more local wines, purveyors, be open till Nov, etc. Chef comes over; says he is new; that they had cooks previously in the kitchen, now they have a chef (?!). Quite honestly, the apps that we had the previous week were delicious and is what inspired us to come back — they were better than the food we had last nite.
Waitress didnt seem to want to be there. Never asked us how our food was, never poured a glass of wine post the initial poor. Had a bit of a laisse fare attitude; dont care what you heard previously… My husband says lets go back; he gave the mgr/​bartender who was very nice, energetic, sharp, a couple of contacts for Montauk pearls, Food Curated website that covers local purveyors. I say not — $ 175 bill for NOT great food, poor waitress. They want to invite us back to test run anything, be glad to help but there are so many other places to go to/​try. It’s too bad cos it is a great location. We used to go to all the predecessor establishments; not so inclined to go back to this one. Good luck and best wishes — it’s Aug 4 — better get it together asap! And perhaps, advertise?!