Windamere — Restaurant in Town of Southold

ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, worst restaurant experience of my life. Our family of 7 (5 adults, 2 15 yr olds) had dinner @ Windemere. Ordered cocktails and all were terribly made except for the Yeungling on tap! Cosmos were bright red and overly limey, their "signature drink" a lavender Elderberry something tasted like a grape lifesaver. We ordered 5-6 apps to share. The fried calamari ($19) came on a tiny plate with 10 pieces (yes I counted); we sent it back and asked to speak with the manager. Chicken wings were nuked & soaked in hot sauce. Baked clams were heavily crusted filled with something but not sure what, watermelon feta salad was good but the shrimp cocktail was borderline fresh. As for entrees the shrimp tacos has small bits of shrimp in a lettuce, tomato, onion, vinaigrette mixture slathered with a sauce that was so wet the soft taco broke apart at the bottom and so we were left eating the filling off the plate. The fish on the fish and chips was either frozen or made days ago and not fresh fried. Kids' Rigatoni Vodka sauce was over salted. However the insult of the night was the lobster roll which is advertised for lunch at $19.99 including fries & soft drink. The dinner version was a roll skimpily filled with lobster pieces for $39!! (Guess I should have asked what MP was but the lunch version was $20 so I didn't bother). Our server was a nice enough young lady and very apologetic, but not an experienced waitperson. Ambiance is wonderful; a beautiful property on the water. $450 + $90 gratuity (it wasn't her fault) and the manager never came over, guess he was busy...

Visited this place for the first and only time tonight. Had a reservation for 7:30 and we were seated when we arrived at 720 because our party size had decreased from 5 to 3. Waitress came over for the water order right away. She then took our cocktail order at about 730/735. By 7:50 I was asking a diff staff member where our waitress was because she didn’t come back with the drinks, she said they were backed up 15 mins on drinks but they’d be out soon. 8pm our first round of drinks arrives and we order food. The menu isn’t fancy so it’s basic stuff….. then 835 our appetizer finally comes out. Just calamari, it was ok. Dinner doesn’t arrive until 9pm. I ordered a very simple chicken sandwich… chicken isn’t cooked. I flag down a very young man that works there and he apologizes and takes it away. He comes back about 5 mins later they somehow tried to reheat the fried chicken, but there was two pieces and the other is STILL not cooked. At this point I say forget it take it off the bill. This was about 0915. When the waitress finally comes by 930 and asks how everything is I tel her because she didn’t know anything about it. It then takes us another almost 20 to get and pay the bill after the chicken sandwich was removed and they put on some kind of discount. The waitress apologized but not management came out, nothing. Haven’t had this bad of an experience at a restaurant in years, serving undercooked fried chicken cutlet is crazy. Especially since it took an hour to prepare it! I had two bites, and I’m worried I could get sick. I’d give no...

Had dinner here with the family on 10/24. We were the first to sit and dine in one of the geodesic domes that they had just put up. We didn’t know what to expect but had a blast. The domes are a nice way to sit outside without being in the elements.

Our waiter was prompt and once he told us of the specials we put the menus away. We started with local oysters, Peconic gold we were told, and they were among the best we’ve ever had. Next was a scallop appetizer with spinach and bacon, delicious! An order of meat balls was shared amongst us and was very good. They were served in a marinara sauce.

As an entree two of us had the striped bass over risotto. The fish was fresh, well prepared and juicy. It came with a side of three different local carrot and parsnip. The carrots were outstanding. My wife had a side of just the risotto and also said it was great.

Everything we ordered was from the list of specials that was presented us. The owner Jeff stuck his head in to make sure everything was good and that the service was up to expectations. Nice touch, and the service was spot on.

I can highly recommend stopping in, whether for dinner, appetizers or a glass of wine. If the weather is a little brisk, try one of the domes for a different experience. Windamere is a great addition to North Fork dining. (Jeff, pipe some music into the domes, it will only make...