The Hamptons Guide
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The Hamptons in summer is its own particular ecosystem—part beach town, part dinner-party circuit, part traffic jam, and navigating it well takes a little local knowledge. For this year's annual guide, we've organized everything by town (or, in some cases, clusters of smaller ones), because anyone who's spent a season out east knows you don't really bounce around: the drive from Southampton to East Hampton can stretch close to an hour, and you tend to settle into your corner of the world.
We've revisited the classics with a clear-eyed audit—what still earns its reputation, and what doesn't, and scouted the newcomers, from summer pop-ups to fresh openings worth building your time around. As always, the goop edit is unsparing: only the genuinely great makes it in. The result is our most comprehensive Hamptons guide yet, everything you need in one place, from where to go in a health emergency (Southampton Hospital) to the perfect matcha (Montauk General Store), to what to pack for a beach picnic (Round Swamp, duh), and which stretch of sand to claim. Consider yourself covered.
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