After nearly 30 years in Bridgehampton, the Golden Pear Cafe will close as of Monday. Owner Keith Davis said he was not able to negotiate a new lease for the Montauk Highway space.
“We operated for more than 10,890 consecutive days with excellence and pride — a rare record in the restaurant world,” Davis wrote in a letter to the community shared with Newsday. The chain’s other locations in Southampton and East Hampton will remain open.
“This is just a very unfortunate, unprecedented situation as far as the Hamptons goes,” Davis said in a phone interview with Newsday Friday morning. Nine full-time employees at the Bridgehampton cafe will be out of a job at the end of the day Sunday, he said. Meanwhile he is looking at two other spaces in the community to reopen.
Davis opened the first Golden Pear Cafe in Southampton in 1987, expanding to East Hampton in 1991 and adding the Bridgehampton location in 1996. The shops serve breakfast sandwiches such as scrambled eggs with Cheddar cheese on a butter croissant ($20), as well as panini and sandwiches with East End names such as The Southampton: roasted turkey with herbed Brie and honey mustard on French bread.
Melissa Azofeifa is a restaurants reporter with Newsday’s FeedMe team. Having grown up on Long Island, she loves talking about food and its impact on culture. A graduate of Stony Brook University, she joined Newsday in the fall of 2024.
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