Most summers in Westhampton Beach feel like a rerun in the best way. The Farmers Market opens on the Village Green, the gazebo concerts start, the movie projector hums to life on the Great Lawn, and Main Street looks more or less like it did last August. This summer breaks that pattern in one specific place: the block between the gazebo and Sunset Avenue.
Two anchor food openings have landed within 15 addresses of each other, one restaurant has quietly reinvented its evenings, and the Performing Arts Center is running one of its densest programming stretches in recent memory. The recurring rituals still anchor the week. The difference is what happens between them.
The two Main Street openings worth noticing
Main Street turnover in Westhampton Beach is usually a slow drip. This year it arrived in a burst.
Westhampton Beach Brew & Grill, 115 Main Street
Brian Sckipp and John Salvaggio, owners of Westhampton Beach Brewing in the Gabreski Airport industrial park, took over the space that formerly housed Daphne's at 115 Main Street and launched Westhampton Beach Brew & Grill for spring 2026. They aimed the opening at the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Westhampton Beach, which tells you something about how they see the room: a townie-first bar and grill on a street that leans white-tablecloth in July.
The menu is broader than "brewery food" suggests. Alongside local fish and chips, Bavarian pretzels from the Gabreski tap room, and a burger built on a special blend from Justin's Chop Shop, expect date-night dishes including a Peruvian-inspired half chicken, flatbreads, steak options, and a bone-in grilled pork chop. The bar keeps eight Westhampton Beach brews on tap at all times plus a rotation of their canned beers.
Two doors of context matter here. Justin DeMarco's shop is a fixture: Justin's Chop Shop at 71 Sunset Ave. runs on prime meat, fresh fish, sandwiches, prepared foods, and bespoke pantry goods. The Brew & Grill burger is a Main Street kitchen sourcing from a Sunset Avenue butcher, which is about as tight a supply chain as this village produces.
PopUp Bagels, 130 Main Street
PopUp Bagels opened at 130 Main Street on Friday, June 12, and they're here to stay. If you've watched the brand's Amagansett popups over the last few summers, this is the permanent version. Founded in Westport, Connecticut by Adam Goldberg, the concept began as a pandemic hobby around a less dense, softer, rip-and-dunk style of bagel and has grown to hundreds of stores nationally.
The menu is deliberately narrow. Five bagel flavors, plain and scallion cream cheese as the standing options with rotating weekly specials, salted butter, smoked salmon, La Colombe coffee, and Natalie's juices; pre-order by the dozen or walk in. No sandwiches, no eggs, no schmear wall the length of a subway car. For a village that already has Goldberg's a few doors away, the pitch is a different bagel entirely, not a better one.
Fauna, quietly rewired for the evening
The most interesting programming change on Main Street is not a new address. It's what Fauna is doing on Saturday evenings beginning June 27, when it transforms into an open-air lounge experience. Classic cocktails, refined cuisine, live vocal performances of familiar songs reimagined for an intimate setting; the format sits between a cocktail lounge and a summer evening on the East End.
Thursdays got the same treatment. Jazz on the Patio runs 6 to 9 p.m. with the Paris Ray Trio, Quogue Jazz Trio, or Certain Moves Trio while dining continues on the patio.
Two doors down, its sibling restaurant is the counterweight. Flora at 149 Main Street runs a seasonally driven menu in a room with puffball light fixtures, garden-bench seating, and tea-parlor flourishes, and the kitchen leans into dishes like harissa-kissed mussels in coconut broth and tahini-swathed soba noodles. If you have out-of-town guests and want to walk them through the Rooted Hospitality range in one evening, Flora at 149 for dinner and Fauna at the other end of the block for a nightcap is now a real option.
WHBPAC's summer, in dates worth writing down
The Performing Arts Center sits at 76 Main Street, which puts it a short walk from every food address above. The 2026 summer season is denser than usual.
| Date | Show |
|---|---|
| June 13 | Rumours, the tribute to Fleetwood Mac |
| June 19 | Robert Cray, blues guitar and Grammy-winning sound |
| June 21 | Elon Gold, stand-up |
| July 26 | Kelli O'Hara in concert |
Executive Director Julienne Penza-Boone and Marketing Director Heather Draskin have both signaled additional shows will be announced as the season goes on, so the printed lineup is a floor, not a ceiling. Tickets go through the box office directly at whbpac.org or 631-288-1500.
For context on scale, the Center runs a year-round academy for the arts with more than 600 students in after-school classes and summer camps and produces its own full-length productions. Summer is the visiting-artist season stacked on top of that.
What hasn't changed, and why that's the point
The recurring calendar is the reason the new openings matter. Without the weekly rhythm, an opening is just an opening. With it, a new address slots into a Saturday that already has shape.
- Saturday Farmers Market on the Village Green, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., running Saturdays through November 22 at 9-1 Beach Road.
- Monday movies on the Great Lawn, run by the village, with kayak and paddleboard rentals available at the Village marina in the same window.
- Wednesday Concerts on the Green at the gazebo, including Strawberry Fields performing Beatles music in full costume on July 15 from 7 to 9 p.m., a free show; bring lawn chairs, blankets, and refreshments.
- Thursday Jazz on the Patio at Fauna, 6 to 9 p.m.
- Saturday nights at Fauna After Dark, starting June 27.
The Village Green itself is doing more programming lift than a first-time visitor would guess. Concerts under a starlit sky and children's events run on the Green all summer, while the Great Lawn at the other end of Main Street hosts art shows, dance and opera, and Historical Society events. Two lawns, one Main Street, most nights covered.
The June-that-was and the July-ahead
Two events bracket the shift from the arrival week to the run-of-summer rhythm.
June 20 was the 4th Annual Southforker Taste of Westhampton Beach on the Great Lawn, an all-inclusive 21-plus culinary night that brings restaurants, vineyards, breweries, and artisanal producers from across Long Island under a tent. General admission started at $135, and the event runs 21-and-over. If you missed it, note the pattern: it lives on the Great Lawn every June, and vendors are drawn heavily from the same block of Main Street this post keeps circling back to.
July 18 turns the marina end of the village into a start line. The 5K at Westhampton Beach Village Marina runs 8:15 to 11:15 a.m. on July 18, with an 8:15 warm up, an 8:15 free kids fun run, and an 8:30 start rain or shine.
A Saturday in July, mapped
To make the geography concrete, one plausible resident Saturday this summer:
Coffee and a dozen at PopUp Bagels on 130 Main. Walk two minutes to the Village Green for the Farmers Market before 1 p.m. Home for the afternoon. Early dinner at Flora, a walk down to 115 Main for a late pint at Brew & Grill, then a curtain at WHBPAC at 76 Main, all inside a six-minute walking radius. On a Wednesday, swap dinner for lawn chairs at the gazebo. On a Thursday, sit on Fauna's patio for the trio.
That radius is the story of Westhampton Beach summer 2026. The village didn't get bigger. It got denser.
If you're weighing what a home in this village actually delivers on a Tuesday in August, or you already own here and want a read on how these openings are reshaping the Main Street corridor, Rachael York is available to talk. Schedule a Free Consultation to start the conversation.
