Zagara

Zagara brings citrus-bright Sicilian cooking to Sag Harbor with a room that feels more Palermo courtyard than Hamptons hotspot.

The kitchen leans hard into Sicily's Arab-Norman roots—saffron, currants, pine nuts—showing up in pastas that taste like they've been made by someone's nonna for forty years. Order the branzino if it's on the board; it arrives whole, blistered, and dressed simply enough to let the fish do the talking. Come early for a table on the patio, where the citrus trees the restaurant is named for actually perfume the air.

Best for: Warm-weather date nights and long Sicilian lunches with the harbor breeze coming through