Little Creek Oyster Farm & Market

If you want to sit outside for lunch and eat things on the half-shell, it doesn’t get much better than Little Creek. And while they have a full menu of cooked stuff, you’re really coming here for trays of clams and oysters and buckets of beer. The best seats are outside on the gravel patio where you can watch yachts pull in from the Caribbean or Florida, as well as the fishermen who drop off those oysters and clams. If the kids get a little antsy, you can walk to the nearby green lawn space or the carousel and count how many times the ferry comes and goes from Shelter Island in the distance.

photo credit: Emily Schindler