“We are on the water so nothing could compete with the view. Paint and interior lighting can help define the atmosphere of any restaurant, something Connors understood well when considering her options. Bar Boy was also extremely helpful in guiding us to make the “The design that Bar Boy went with worked perfectly for our space because the dividers look permanent but can be moved out of the way to combine the spaces for large functions. It is divided by two freestanding banquettes designed by Lenny DeFelice and the team at Bar Boy, a fifty-year-old kitchen design and installation, restaurant equipment and supply business based in Farmingdale, New York. The dining room is also broken up into two to maintain the intimate feeling that the partners wanted to transfer over from the old LakeHouse. Matt and Eileen Connors have met the challenge of expanding their high quality menu to a new home with a much larger guest capacity (Photo by Sayana Cairo)

This gives diners an opportunity for a white tablecloth experience or a more casual, bar atmosphere to meet for dinner and drinks. To accomplish that they brought in an architect to split the space in to two rooms, one for fine dining and the other for a tap room with a separate menu. The main concern of partner Eileen Connors was to make sure the space maintained the cozy, intimate feel of the previous restaurant despite moving into a more spacious building. Previously occupying a smaller, cottage style space on Lawrence Lake, The LakeHouse will now bring that same three star service and atmosphere to an 8,000 square foot building with room for two hundred people.

Enter The LakeHouse restaurant, a ten-year-old staple on Long Island that earned three stars from Newsday for their excellent dining, service and location.

For the past twenty-five years a prime piece of real estate has been sitting vacant on the Great South Bay in Bay Shore, New York.

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