Old Stove Pub — Restaurant in Town of Southampton

Worst place in the Hamptons. Despite the numerous positive reviews, I have to say, our experience there was horrible. The setting is nice, I’ll admit that. The live acoustic duo was also pleasant. Unfortunately that’s where it ends. Overall, the food was horrible, portions are small, extremely expensive (even for the Hamptons), and the wine and drink prices are ridiculous. the basic takeaway is that if you are going to pay those prices, there are WAY better options - Tutto, BVs, Pierre’s, Topping Rose, LuLu - literally anywhere else - and we’ve been to them all.

Our sever was pleasant, though it seemed like she was dying to turn the table over, though there appeared to be many openings see outdoors, even with the distancing restrictions. The menu is pretty lean and has a mix of traditional Mediterranean fare. We started with the saganaki, hard to screw up melted cheese. There wasn’t a lot of it, and maybe came with 6 little pita triangles. I would have ordered more yet the want and extra $2 for a piece of pita, so I passed. The wine pricing is egregious, even for out here. $24 for a mediocre pour of Whispering Angel?. Hey, I get it, restaurateurs need to make money, but please. $14-18 is pretty standard. While I’m at it, charge $10-12 for a Stella. It’s not that I’m cheap, I just don’t like getting gouged for no reason. Ok maybe if the place is amazing, but this isn’t a Thomas Keller restaurant...save the pricing My wife Ordered the chicken paillard $36, I chose the branzino filet, $38. The food arrived quite quickly, her chicken and underwhelming sized piece of over-cooked rubberized chicken. The branzino was a skin on filet, Burt on the edges, and had an unappealing dirty taste to it. I thought it might have just been that I ate a piece close to the skin, but as I probed it, the entire filet had that awful dirty taste. This is one of my favorite Greek dishes - I order it often - this piece was just bad. We sent both back and decided we’d had enough. Again it’s not that I care all that much about the prices, but given the quality of the food, it is worth mentioning. Suffice to say, we headed back into Bridge and split a perfectly done steak...

Thanksgiving dinner….absolutely meritless and worst meal I can recall ever eating short of ones that involved food poisoning it was advertised as a “prix -fix Thanksgiving dinner” but waiter explained they changed their minds to offer full menu offering turkey as one of the entree options only…( in my experience a thanksgiving price fix usually includes a starter, a choice of entrees and a dessert)…they should have honored what they advertised.. We ordered the trio dips to start which were decent but they charged $5. For additional pita. No bread offerings on Thanksgiving?.. The turkey entree was inedible..turkey had a bitter unsavory taste..both breast and dark meat, and the mashed potatoes were inedible..stuffing and cranberry was acceptable ..As other bad reviews suggested, a diner could serve up a better quality and tasting meal. I noticed customers leaving at another table seemed to leave most of the food -turkey and mashed potatoes on their plates…I soon discovered why…I did not want to make a scene but you need to wonder why they wouldn’t show concern when we didn’t eat the food served???? They didn’t even get the drink I ordered right…on the rocks was served straight up..nor the brand of vodka I requested It is a charming setting and understand the current management is only a year or so old… Unfortunate experience…they will never...

We went to have their burger special, $19.95 with fries which was first very difficult to find on the menu, so we asked about it and they brought us a small clear plastic stand-up menu/beverage menu where it was clearly hidden (small letters at the bottom) and not readily available. We called ahead of time to book a reservation while asking about the burger special, sat down, windows were locked closed and it was very warm/hot. Then after trying to order 7 burgers, we were told by the waiter that there was only one (1) burger left. This is on a Thursday when they promote 'Special Burger Night'. Outrageous that it is their special for Thursday and they only have one burger available at 6:30pm! Clearly they lie about their special 'burger' and try to get clients to buy their regular expensive dinners (starters in the $25 range and entrees in the $35-$56 range). We had the burger special in April during slow season and now in early June, it was no...