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Stissing House, Sicily, Clare de Boer, Doubles Sag, Lucky's, Park Slope for $4M, LA Restaurants of the Summer, MORE

Jul 18, 2025
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CULTURE & LEISURE • Friday Routine

Upstate queen

CLARE de BOER • cook and writer • The Best Bit, Stissing House, Roseland
Neighborhood you work in:
Park Slope / Pine Plains, NY

It’s Friday morning. What’s the scene at your workplace?
I pick up my son, Abe, from school in Brooklyn Heights, then walk over to the Roseland store my husband and I just opened on Atlantic Ave. It’s in the little Picture Room space by Salter House, and we’ve filled it with Stissing martini tables, fire tools, our bed, kitchen island, etc.

Abe helps me remake the bed so my favorite part of the bedspread (a cornucopia motif pulled from a Virginia quilt) is centered. We’ll likely end up at Hometown BBQ in Red Hook with my husband and three other sons for brisket and live jazz — we love it, and it gets us closer to the tunnel for our drive upstate. The kids fall asleep in the car.

Where are you drinking or dining this weekend?
On Saturday I work on the menu at Stissing House with my CDC, David. We have a running list of ideas, which we taste and workshop at lunchtime. If I eat the whole plate of anything, it’s ready for the tavern. This week we’re messing around with spit-roasted rabbit stuffed with the last of the ramps.

I’ll cook dinner at home — something from Dashing Star Farm or Millbrook Beef and Dairy, whose meats I stockpile in the freezer, and veg from our garden. After dinner, we usually end up getting soft serve in town.

How about a little leisure or culture?
We have 10 kids under five and their parents coming to camp on our farm. Everyone’s bringing their own tent, and I’m armed with marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. The only thing that might be more exciting than a first camping trip is taking my kids on theirs.

Any weekend getaways?
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia is a quick flight or a six-hour drive from here, and it’s a perfect two-day trip. I don’t think there’s a more beautiful place in America to be immersed in craftsmanship and material history. The museum there has some of the finest American folk art, quilts, and furniture, and the acres of “living museum” are keeping arts that would otherwise be lost alive. Make sure to visit the Governor's Palace kitchen, the cabinetmakers, and any home that is open to the public.

What was your last great vacation?
Sicily with my husband, before we had kids. We drove around the whole island and ate and swam ourselves silly. La Cieloma, Da Vittorio, I Rizzari.

What’s a recent big-ticket purchase you love?
A Jonathan Kline basket at Stissing House’s Craft Feast.

What store or service do you always recommend?
Live Auctioneers and UShip.

Where are you donating your time or money?
Prospect Park Alliance, The American Chestnut Foundation.

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GETAWAYS • Hamptons Intel

As tomato season finally arrives in full out east, a dose of mid-July intel from the Hamptons.

  • SAG HARBOR: A FOUND operative reports from an Amagansett favorite which has opened in Sag Harbor: “Doubles Sag (above) has a jerk chicken sandwich with a bun made from a local baker that is insanely good. They don’t have as much seating there — it’s more grab and go.” 51 Division St, place pickup order.

  • SAGAPONACK: Because the only topic that matters this summer is one’s opinion about the reborn Sagaponack General Store, a FOUND reader emails: “Not sure you reviewed the Sagaponack General Store food quite right. Their go-to item that everyone stands in line for is the breakfast sandwich. It sells out every day and creates traffic jams on Sagg Main, literally. It is from-another-planet-delicious. The sandwiches are also delish, but salads are no bueno, like actually bad with a $20(ish) price tag. Rotisserie chicken is the absolute best in the Hamptons, hands down, and only $24, a bargain of sorts. But the schmaltzy potato sides to buy are greasy, undercooked, and flavorless.” 542 Sagg Main St, closed Tuesdays.

  • EAST HAMPTON: A report from the newly opened South Fork outpost of Montecito (recently by way of Soho) steakhouse Lucky’s: “The Lucky’s Salad is the best salad in the Hamptons, or maybe tied with the Duryeas lobster salad that costs 4x more. Their website says they are only open Wed-Sun but they’re actually open seven days. Two weeks in, the service still needs some figuring out, but we’re here for the ride.” 85 Montauk Hwy, reserve.


GETAWAYS LINKS: What to expect at reopened Waldorf Astoria in Midtown • Woodstock sanctuary for Bob Dylan hits the market • Seafood-focused Carbone Riviera opening at Bellagio in Las Vegas this fall • Finest farm stays in Europe • Kwame Onwuachi among chefs partnering with Amex to overhaul Centurion Lounge food • Why do airport restaurants feel the same?


REAL ESTATE • First Mover

Three for-sale properties in Park Slope that came to market this week.

New York City Real Estate | View 427A 8th Street | 4 Beds, 3 Baths

→ 722 President St, 1 (Park Slope) • 3BR/3BA, 1805 SF condo • Ask: $2.7M • parlor-level duplex with private garden • Days on market: 2 • Monthly tax: $744; Monthly cc: $762 • Agent: Lesley Semmelhack, Corcoran.

→ 750 Carroll St (Park Slope) • 6BR/4.1BA, 3872 SF 3-family home • Ask: $3.995M • first time to market in 40 years, potential to add 1775 SF • Days on market: 6 • Monthly tax: $1304 • Agent: Jeffrey Zoldan, Brown Harris.

→ 427A 8th St (Park Slope, above) • 4BR/3.1BA, 3774 SF 2-family home • Ask: $4.095M • renovated Neo-Grec built c. 1884, currently set up as single-family • Days on market: 2 • Monthly tax: $564 • Agents: Jessica Levy Buchman & Bryan Rettaliata, Corcoran.


REAL ESTATE LINKS: The gold-leaf-wallpaper feud on East 72nd • In Greenpoint, Park Church Co-Op transforms into luxury apartments • In Williamsburg, battle over Bedford Ave bike lane rages on • The original Hamptons party house.


CULTURE & LEISURE • Messi

  • Zach Bryan w/ Kings of Leon • MetLife (East Rutherford) • Sat @ 7p • sec 113, $335 per

  • White Denim • Brooklyn Bowl (Williamsburg) • Fri @ 8p • GA, $38 per

  • Inter Miami CF v Red Bulls • Sports Illustrated Stadium (Harrison, NJ) • Sat @ 730p • sec 126, $412 per (lowest avail, $180)


CULTURE & LEISURE LINKS: A24 readies Cherry Lane Theater for Sept re-opening (with restaurant from the Frenchette team) • What to see at Upstate Art Weekend (more) • Williamsburg Labubu raves, very hot RN • The world’s best hotel gyms.


GETAWAYS • The Nines

Restaurants of the Summer, Los Angeles

This Nines appeared in yesterday’s edition of FOUND LA. Seeking more Los Angeles in your life? Subscribe to FOUND LA, with new issues dropping every Thursday.

  • Baby Bistro (Chinatown, above), thoughtful farm-to-table cooking w/ short menu in century-old Victorian bungalow, intel

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