Brooke Shields’ Southampton, NY
Actress and beauty icon BROOKE SHIELDS is a Hamptons habitué, decamping there from NYC for weekends and vacations. You’ll find her at these insider haunts…
For some headspace
“East Hampton is a little too busy for me these days, but Southampton Beach is just so wide and beautiful, still quiet and not very populated. We [Shields and her husband, Chris Henchy, and daughters Rowan, 15, and Grier, 12] got a boat quite recently, and we go out on it all day, with no electronics allowed. We pack a picnic table with linens and cutlery and have beautiful wine and home-cooked food, and we just swim and walk on the sandbar at Robin’s Island. It’s our happy place.”
For a stylish bite
“The Red Bar Brasserie in Southampton is great for dinner. It’s a very pretty building, all windows, and it’s our local watering hole. I feel so comfortable there, I can just sit at the bar on my own. They make great cocktails and their food is fantastic. In winter, my assistant and I will sit in the back room, have soup and play [the word game] Bananagrams. I also love The American Hotel in Sag Harbour, which is such a beautiful, classic, old-world spot that does amazing oysters.”
For a chic escape
“If you like luxury, Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton is in a very central location and it has a really incredible bar and restaurant. The 1770 House in East Hampton is also beautiful. But to me, even the little motels off Route 27 that have little cabins are great. We stayed in those a few times when we were coming to look for our house.”
Where to unwind
“I love taking a SoulCycle class and then going to the Village Gourmet Cheese Shoppe in Southampton. That’s where I get my PG Tips teabags and my chocolate digestive biscuits [cookies] – I have very British tastes. Then I’ll take food to the beach, near the lake and the church in Southampton. That’s where I’ll meet my girlfriends and just sit on a blanket. Even if it’s cold, I’ll just put another sweater on and sit for hours.”
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