‹ The Thanksgiving drive · Thanksgiving out
The LIE to the Hamptons
Eastbound: Manhattan to East Hampton · 115 miles · about 2 hours before traffic · 4 stops
Out the Midtown Tunnel and the Long Island Expressway to the end, then Route 27. The North Fork's pie barn on the way, cookies in Southampton, a counter breakfast in Bridgehampton and fried chicken in Noyac: what to bring and what to eat when you get there.
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Briermere Farms
Get: A cream pie (the raspberry cream is the one people line up for) and an apple or pumpkin for the table.
The pie stop of the whole East End. You'll see the line of cars on Sound Avenue before you see the barn.
Where to get off: LIE exit 73, then north to Sound Avenue (a detour toward the North Fork).
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Tate's Bake Shop
Get: The thin, crisp chocolate chip cookies warm from the case, a pie if you didn't stop at Briermere, and a coffee.
Where the cookies in the green bag started. Kathleen King's original shop is still the best place to buy them, and the pies are the real thing.
Where to get off: Route 27 to North Sea Road, at the edge of Southampton village.
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Candy Kitchen
Get: Eggs and pancakes at the counter, or a homemade ice cream if you're arriving after lunch.
A hundred-year-old counter that hasn't changed, which is exactly why everyone out here goes. Stretch your legs on the main street after.
Where to get off: Right on Route 27 in the middle of Bridgehampton.
Photo like it: Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Cromer's Market
Get: A box of the fried chicken, so nobody has to cook the night you arrive.
The East End's fried chicken, from a family market on Noyac Road. It's also a full butcher and market, for anything the shopping list missed.
Where to get off: Off Route 27 at Bridgehampton up the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, then left on Noyac Road.
Photo like it: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Take them with you
Open the whole drive in Google Maps with every stop on it, in the order you're driving. Drop any you'll skip right there.
Open the drive in Google MapsOn the map
Pins are numbered like the stops above. The dashed line joins them in order; it isn't the road.
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Good to know
Where should you stop to eat on LIE from Manhattan to East Hampton?
Briermere Farms in Riverhead (A cream pie); Tate's Bake Shop in Southampton (The thin, crisp chocolate chip cookies warm from the case, a pie if you didn't stop at Briermere, and a coffee); Candy Kitchen in Bridgehampton (Eggs and pancakes at the counter, or a homemade ice cream if you're arriving after lunch); Cromer's Market in Noyac (A box of the fried chicken, so nobody has to cook the night you arrive).
How far off the highway are the stops?
Briermere is a short detour north from the end of the LIE (exit 73); the rest sit on or just off Route 27 and Noyac Road. Order pies ahead: the day before Thanksgiving there's a line of cars.
When should you leave for Thanksgiving?
The LIE backs up from Queens to exit 70 by midday Wednesday. Leave Tuesday night or before 7am Wednesday; on the way home Sunday, leave before noon.
Are they open on Thanksgiving Day?
For the rest, call ahead: many close early on Wednesday or close for the holiday.
Every place checked open on November 5, 2026. Hours are the usual ones as listed; holiday hours change, so call ahead the week of Thanksgiving. Miles and hours are estimates from the start of the drive, before traffic. Photos marked "a photo like it" are of the food, not the place. Chef Amazing isn't paid by any place here. Something wrong, or a stop we missed? hello@chefamazing.com.
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