TR Restaurant & Bar Opens for 2012 Season
Tom Rutyna Offers Creative and Classic Hamptons Seafood Cuisine

WHO: TR Restaurant & Bar
WHAT: Opens for 2012 Season
WHERE: 78 Foster Avenue, Hampton Bays, NY 11946 (631) 728-8700
WHEN: Starting March 22, Thursday – Sunday, 5:30 to 11 p.m.
[Starting April 1, Sunday brunch, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.]

Chef Tom Rutyna re-opens TR Restaurant & Bar, a creative and classic year-round seafood restaurant located behind Tully’s Seafood Market in Hampton Bays on Thursday, March 22 following winter vacation. The restaurant will begin the spring season serving dinner Thursday through Sunday, starting at 5:30 p.m. and will extend hours after Memorial Day.

The season kicks off with Rutyna’s three-course $29.95 prix fixe offered all night, Thursday through Sunday with plenty of fish dishes to choose from as well as TR’s house salad and meat selections.  New in 2012, Rutyna introduces a new Sunday brunch menu, starting April 1, featuring traditional favorites such as Eggs Benedict, country ham and eggs, pancakes with nutella, and his own seafood signatures including a chicken salad plate full of tarragon, red grapes and pecans, shrimp salad remoulade and organic greens, and a duck breast sandwich with arugula, melted Port Salut cheese and pickled vegetables.

Here’s a cool attraction: TR Restaurant & Bar has two slips available for you to dock & dine with direct access to Shinnecock Bay.

Noting Rutyna’s dedication to fresh fish, Joanne Starkey of The New York Times once said he “is at least as much a fisherman as he is a fine chef.”  His late grandfather, Herman (Tick) Ullman, former Southampton town trustee, was the first to introduce Rutyna to local waters and fishing.

During his ten years as executive chef at Coast Grill in Southampton, owner Joe Luppi, who tested recipes for former New York Times’ critic Craig Claiborne and columnist Chef Pierre Franey, noted there is “very little that Rutyna doesn’t know about fish.” His knowledge of seafood is extreme and he follows his own motto, “I know what I know.  What I don’t, I’ll learn fast.”

TR Restaurant utilizes the freshest, high quality ingredients from local purveyors and fishermen.  Aiming to “set the bar in the Hamptons by which to judge seafood, agriculture and wine”, chef-owner Rutyna offers a menu of creative dishes and refined old age classics in the rustic, yet streamlined restaurant set on Foster Creek.

KDH agrees with Newsday’s Peter Gianotti who declared this “Hampton Bays fish house restaurant does it right.”