Vine Street Cafe - SHELTER ISLAND

I wish there were six stars with which to rate this restaurant. Nothing on the east end of Long Island compares to it for quality of food. It's like Stone Creek when they were just getting a name for themselves. The building is modest but mostly hand built and creative and cool. The staff are talented, devoted, hard working, proud, and yet quiet and modest. So secluded and hard to get to, being out on Shelter Island, but those who let small obstacles get in the way miss out on a lot. But there are real pros behind the scenes and they are putting it all out there. Start with the houses's Petite Chablis, awesome. Then run, dont walk to the Tuna tartar tacos. There is a franchise just in those tacos alone. The shells are like nothing you have ever tasted. Then order the calamari salad. I never get calamari, but this is a gem. Then, the entrees are everything you could ask for. Take your choice. Nice people, great craft, bon apatite. You can go to the overpriced, mediocre, pretentious, place in town, or you can drive to the Shelter Island ferry and explore cooking as an art and a craft. We live in Westhampton and this is our new favorite place.

Lovely to be back. Still delicious. Still cozy. Feels like family

Always impeccable service, the highest quality food, fabulous extensive wine list.

On this sweet welcome place after a walk on the island shelter. marco the bartender and our greeting/ waiter wee warm and welcoming and we spent a nice hour at the bar over a drink over the restaurant and the living on shelter island. eating promised to be good and we go back to dinner.

This place is great, I wish I had made a picture of that eating. had the rigatoni, something wein and the sticky pudding.