Town & Country sheds light on an issue that many Hamptionites face: whether to stay in and entertain at home or to head on out to the dinner/nightlife scene. In the glossy’s August issue (under new EIC Stellene Volandes), Hamptons staples weigh in on the battle in an article titled “In the Hamptons, Staying in is the New Going Out.” We’ve rounded up some of our favorite answers, below:
“In casual conversation, the de rigueur attitude is all, ‘I have interesting houseguests and we’re whipping up pizzas in our outdoor pizza oven and having an elitist discussion on my back porch, so we won’t be participating in this Bravo Housewives fête of the masses with you all.‘”—Holly Peterson
“This idea of the Hamptons as a party place was a bizarre development. We go to people’s houses or have people over. It’s unimaginable to go out.”– Jonathan Adler
“The mood in there on a Friday night can be just so brutal—you know, aggressive. I’m sorry to say it, but the people with money are the worst behaved. One of the funny parts of all this action in the restaurant scene is the joy the WASPs take in participating, even though they say they don’t,” he says. “I asked my mother once to take me there, because I had never been but had heard how hard it was to get a table. She said, ‘Oh, Hicks & Phonies, good idea. When do you want to go?’ I wasn’t even sure she would have heard of it, let alone know the insider nickname. We had a delicious dinner, didn’t know a soul.”–David Netto, admitting to having dined at Nick & Toni’s
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