East (coast) meets West at Hamptons [RESTAURANT REVIEW]
An outpost of East Coast resort style cuisine arrives in Manhattan Beach Hamptons, located on Manhattan Avenue where Sun and Moon Café was formerly located. Photo by Kathalina Rodriguez Let me describe a place to you – a string of small towns with an upscale lifestyle and beachy atmosphere, but close to a major business and financial center. Numerous films have been shot there (and written, because there’s a literary and artistic community, too), and house prices in the area are among the highest in the nation. Locals may grouse about the summer traffic and other inconveniences of living in a tourist area, but they enjoy the variety of restaurants and nightlife that have come along with the moneyed visitors. Sound like the South Bay? It could also be the Hamptons, a line of small towns at the opposite end of Long Island from New York City. A new Manhattan Beach restaurant seeks to capitalize on the similarity by offering East Coast and New England specialties in an atmosphere resembling the beach house style of those eastern summer resorts. The attention that the owners put to recreating that atmosphere is commendable – the premises that were cramped and dark as Sun & Moon Café…
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