The 10th Annual Riverhead Blues Festival sounds off this weekend, behind East Main Street along the Peconic River. Admission to the Saturday-Sunday show is $10; it's free for children younger than 12. Here are four choices for chow.
Lobster Roll Northside, 3225 Sound Ave.; 631-369-3039
Cost $
The northern branch of the Amagansett landmark, Lobster Roll Northside sends out the lobster salad roll, shrimp salad roll, fish and chips made with cod, crab cake and soft-shell crab rolls, fried oyster roll, grilled cheese and fries - yes, almost all the summertime food groups. Casual and popular.
The Roadhouse, 1111 W. Main St.; 631-208-9888
Cost $
Pizzas, calzones, hero sandwiches, salads -- you'll fill up here. Meat or vegetable-stuffed pizzas have the heft. Add smoked kielbasa as a topping to make international your Sicilian, Neapolitan or grandma pie. The Gorgonzola cheese salad is the right company. And it's also near Riverhead's bastion of great ice cream, Snowflake.
Stonewalls, 967 Reeves Ave.; 631-506-0777
Cost $$-$$$
A stylish restaurant at the Woods Golf Course, Stonewalls helped redefine local dining out. The crab cake with braised fennel, duck breast au poivre, duck pâté with celeri rémoulade, ahi tuna tartare, trout amandine and lobster bisque are among the highlights. The warm chocolate tart and the vanilla-almond cheesecake headline the finales.
Tweeds Restaurant & Buffalo Bar, 17 E. Main St.; 631-208-3151
Cost $$
Bison is the specialty at this restaurant in the historic J.J. Sullivan Hotel. Have yours in a grilled sate with peanut sauce; marinated in steak salad; in chili; corned in an updated Reuben sandwich; grilled with barbecue sauce; straightforward in a rib-eye steak. Tweeds has a full menu of alternatives, from seared tuna to duck confit.
