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Doug Geed headed to Mattituck where Lucia is serving up some of the best ethnic dishes on Long Island.&nbsp;

Also, a trip to Eastern Front Brewing Co. and finding some quirky items at Lumber &amp; Salt.&nbsp;

<a href="http://www.luciamattituck.com">Lucia of Mattituck</a> Main Road (Route 25), Mattituck 631-315-5165

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/easternfrontbrewing/">Eastern Front Brewing Co.</a> Route 25, Mattituck 631-905-1535

<a href="http://www.lumberandsalt.com">Lumber &amp; Salt</a> Sound Avenue, Jamesport 215-704-6588

Doug Geed headed to Mattituck where Lucia is serving up some of the best ethnic dishes on Long Island. 

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East End Full Show: Lucia of Mattituck; Eastern Front Brewing Co.; Lumber & Salt

It's kind of an elevated country look with a little bit of a european flair. It's not only one of Long Island's most beautiful wineries. They produce some of Long Island's best wines. This is Wolf or Estate in Sagaponack. Hello again. I'm doug welcome to another edition of the East End. Here on news 12 Long Island. On this weekend's program, we're going to take you to a place that sells everything but the kitchen sink. Well actually you might find a kitchen sink there some very quirky items. Then we'll show you the beers they're producing at the eastern from brewing company in Madison. But our first stop is right next door to that brewery, a restaurant where they're serving really good authentic ethnic food Lucia. I'm Melvin racinos. I born in Salvador, I moved to the U. S. And when I was 18 years old I wore in the restaurant when I was in El Salvador with my mom, she always have a food service there. So she always have a restaurant. So I was there helping her all the time. So when I moved to the U. S. I was um higher in the in the Hellenic snack bar and it's Marion. So after that I was working with Gerry Hayden and the North Fork table in him and claudia Fleming. And we find this a little spot for rent. And and we talk with my mom and we say like why not? Let's try, let's open our own place in the Norfolk. So and we opened the Lucia, marry talk in 2016, we serve us latin food. We have like a couple of authentic place from el Salvador but we also have a tex Mex food, we make everything by order. So it's always fresh and we also we have launched a special for our local workers. The top seller is the farmer play and the pupusas, the proposals are like traditional additional Salvador papoose a is a corn dog party is filling with cheese and any any kind of protein or veggies you like can be uh bean and cheese as the most popular in my country and uh poor and cheese and the most popular here in Marita Marita is the squash and cheese and spinach and cheese burritos are most like tex Mex burrito stuffed with beans, rice cheese and any kind of baggy or protein you like because ideas are, I mean we sell a really good too and traditional mexican dish and flour tortilla cheese and protein cilantro, onions and we keep the hot sauce and the salsa on the side. The empanadas is most like south american dish is um flower toe with cheese. You know, anything with cheese is good. You know what I like about all of those foods, it seems like you can almost make what you want, you put chicken shrimp, you do know meet whatever, right? Especially if you are vegetarian, I mean you can have any any of those dishes I mentioned before. So for people who love meat. I see a lot of delicious meats there behind the counter what's back there pork chop grilled chicken, fried chicken and chicken is too we don't cook a spicy because I mean we know with a lot of people doesn't eat spicy, doesn't enjoy the spicy food and we try to keep all this hot sauces on the side. We we prepare the food like bases with our grand mom teach how to do it simple yes with fresh ingredients fresh herbs to season it and fresh proteins. Is your mom the main cook back there? Yes she tried when when I'm cooking she's not there and I try when she's cooking is I'm I'm out of the kitchen because we always try to do our way for something like especially when she's doing like chicken soup I tell her to do it like this way and she's like no I have to do it this way. So you like every cook, every profession got her own touch. Yeah. Do you have a specialty special plateau? The farmer plate and what is that piece of grilled your steak, rice and beans, avocado, salsa, salvadorian style cheese and sweet plantains. Oh my gosh it's a full milk that's like a party who's a better cook you or your son? We're gonna fight right on T. V. No no no what did she say? She said? She teach me how to cook. No we have a lot of people every day who see the menu and they don't know what it is and we give them a try and they love it and they come the next day for the same thing or we have customers who try one thing on the menu and they keep eating the same thing like all the time when they are here and we try to give them something else and and then they switch for the new new thing. They try. Do you have any alcohol here or no, no we don't serve alcohol here. Also we have our second location and middle island and there we have a full bar. We have a tiki bar in the patio. We have live music and us and the good weather in the summer and the spring and fall. I feel like every cook drink when he's having his own place and one point in his life. Give the, I mean to the public the food you cook the way you cook your style, your flavors I think. Yeah it's, it's a dream come true. Lucia has very good food. It's a small place take out service with a few tables indoors and out will give you their contact information later in our show. Well if you build up a thirst after eating at Lucia you can go literally next door and visit the eastern front brewing company started drinking beer probably a little bit too young. Like like most people did when I went to Germany it was like a kid in a candy store. So you know, that cemented any, you know the love for more flavorful beers one day. I just, you know what? I think it was a home brew and so I started doing that and then Christina has a bunch of friends who were winery owners and they're like, oh, it's the best thing we ever did. So she's like, why don't we open a brewery? And I'm like, okay, maybe it'll be the best thing we ever did. So we opened, opened the brewery. We've been just growing very slowly because it's a two person show, you know, we don't have deep pockets. So that, that's how you know the canning machine because I basically built every piece of equipment over there because I don't have the money to go out and buy the stuff to buy one to buy a copy machine machine is between 80 and 100 grand. I designed it. So that way it would handle 12 and 16 ounce cans and it's designed to operate up to 40 cans a minute right now it's turned down because a lot of times I'm doing it by myself. It's like a, I love lucy episode how long from start to finish from conception to spitting out a can that has a lid on, it doesn't leak, two years, three years. It was a lot of fun and And to finally see it finished and working. Um yeah, it makes me feel good. The original building was built sometime in the mid 1800s and then in the 1960s they added the greenhouse and here in the patio and for 50 or so years it was mattocks Florist. I love to decorate for every holiday. I have bins and bins of every holiday. So. So um yeah, it's fun. It's little homie. I didn't want to go over that industrial stainless steel kind of look. I wanted it more warm and friendly up here. That's kind of a flex space. We have artists of the month there right now we're looking for artists but um you know it's a good gallery space and we have artists reception which is just so much fun. And then we have, you know bands, music, they go up there, we have open mic. So talk about the four legged one walking around here. He's our baby, here's bob's pale ale, that's where we get the name. And yeah, he's just our guy, he's like our mascot, He's here greeting you a lot of times. I make about 35 different beers and I'll say I brew traditional styles or my version of a traditional style. IPAs, I make european. I. P. S. I love very bitter beer but you know the grapefruit, piney thing is not so much my thing and there's plenty of other guys doing it. I'm like if that's what you enjoy. Go ahead. Uh like more multi full body beers. Mine don't have that grapefruit, citrus, you know, pine taste. Mine tastes more floral botanical. So just talk about your location a little bit. You know, you're right on the main road. Everybody loves to be outside here, right in the summer time. We're gonna get some more Adirondack chairs for you out front because myself too. When I do have finally time to sit down and have a beer, it's like grab one and go sit out front and then and watch traffic. It is, it's a lot of fun. Eastern Front is a small, friendly place with some unique beers. We'll give you their contact information later in our show. First though, we get a lot of people who come in and say, I've driven past here a million times. I've never stopped by. I'm so happy I came inside. So just what do they sell and do at lumber and salt in Jamesport? We'll tell you next on the east end here on news 12 Long Island. It was way back in 17 91. Folks in the Riverhead area wanted to form a church Originally, they met in private home, but ultimately built this baiting hollow congregational church, which still stands proudly today. Welcome back to the east End here on News 12 Long Island. I'm doug, let's stick with the theme of old. We're going to visit a place a few miles east of here on Sound Avenue. It's called lumber and salt. I would describe lumber and salt as being very eclectic, interesting and unique one of a kind. What is in this store is all reclaimed, vintage. It has a history. Um, we love to give a narrative for the pieces that we fall in love with um, in their next life. We get a lot of people who come in to say and say, I've driven past here a million times. I've never stopped by. I'm so happy I came inside because you would have never known from the outside. It is what it is inside. We deal in lumber, we deal in plant material, repurposed goods, anything from building a barn to building a garden. You could find vintage hand hewn beams or you can get a, you know, a set of plants for your garden or pots that go along with it. Where do you find this stuff? Could be the local farmers saying, Hey john, you know, I've been watching you for a while. You know, I have these uh, these plows or I have these crates. Maybe you want to take a look at. We also buy a lot from the trade wholesale. Maybe buying like vintage cutting boards out of eastern europe or something like that. The long corn crib outside. I think it's about 30 ft long. It came from like, let's say an hour out of the city upon 87 I believe I talked to the gentleman selling it. He said, why do you want that? I said, how much is it? We made a deal. Just a nice vintage barn style corn crib with unique geometry and material. I can't imagine someone coming in saying, I'm looking for a corn crib. So when they see that they do something click in their mind like, oh, this would be good for the blah, blah, blah spot. Absolutely. I think that they love the look of it first, the feeling that they're getting and they're saying, wow, I really want that And then they can apply it to a project. They may be a designer and architect that wants to cited by a swimming pool and build a garden around it. Or they just say, wow, I love this, this simple building. I would like it. So these are like their own art pieces in themselves and we like to preserve them and then celebrate them and then you know, inevitably work them into our jobs or sell them. A couple of pieces. I saw outside the old pump. Yeah. You know, that's something that we got out of a big barn sale in Connecticut. You know, it's for the right customer. Car enthusiasts guys that are building certain specific things. It's unique and someone will, you know, fall in love with it and take it away the soda machine as well. You know, the coldest soda I've ever had. So we got that out of a factory. It was last used I think are the date was 1980 for its 50 cents for the soda, we stock it up in the vintage style that where it was in the factory kids come in, they want, oh my God, they've never seen a soda machine like this. I love your price is 50 cents for soda and 35 cents for gas. You can't do you finish anything like re staining or you know whatever or it's kind of as is most of the 1990% of the stuff here is as is, you know, usually it's A D. Y. I. Or someone has to um cut it down or you know, they want to work the material into their vision and that's fine. If we're doing it for ourselves or something specific, then we'll re finish it. So we have reclaimed wood, eight quarter down to you know, five quarter lumber in all different lengths and all different species, kiln, dried air dried rough sawn slabs, reclaimed beams of all different sizes and proportions, right? Like it could be a 10 by 10 beams by 30 ft. Big seller for that is people want to build their own farm table. They want barn wood for doing a wall, the mantle of wood mantels and things like that. Let's talk about that coffee bar, which is a nice surprise when you walk in here, the North Fork moto brand came into our circle and we, for the winter we wanted to have something warm to come in and enjoy in an environment that felt comfortable. Um, so we came up with sip shop and salvage. Um, that's a tongue twister. But for for us it really works. Um, the coffee is amazing. Our tag would be making objects art and we love to curate the pieces that we really gravitate towards in a raw and refined way. And while some pieces have a lot of grit, we apply them so they feel polished. When people come in. It's a, it's a creative, inspiring experience. And until they see that said peace, they don't know that they even wanted or needed it and then it takes on a whole other life. So that's really fun to see and taking the journey with them from the store into their home. We love it. That's the art of bringing it in, getting it and then repurposing it into a unique way that someone hasn't seen before. There are a lot of cool things to check out at lumber and salt will give you the contact information for them. For the other spots we visited on this weekend's program and give you a peek at our next show. All straight ahead on the east end here on news 12 Long Island. It opened in 1911. It's been run by the same family since 1920. A real one of a kind spot star confectionery in Riverhead. Welcome back to the east End here on news 12 Long Island. I'm doug, let's show you the places we visited on this weekend's program. Our first stop was Lucia, a restaurant serving salvadoran specialties. It's on the main road or route 25 in Mata Talk, you can call 6313155165 or go to Lucia. Mata talk dot com. Our next stop was the Eastern Front brewing company right next door to Lucia on route 25 in Matata. Their number is 6319051535. And you can check them out on facebook. Finally we visited lumber and salt, kind of an antique salvage and design store. It's on Sound Avenue in Jamesport. Their number is 6317 oh 46588. Their website lumber and salt dot com. Remember you can find links to these and other fun spots to visit and you can see more of my East End segments at news 12 dot com slash east end. And that'll wrap things up for this weekend's program back here at Star confectionery, also known as papa nicks and Riverhead. Run by the same family from more than 100 years. We'll feature it on an upcoming East End show. Remember to go to the east End shows. Facebook page and like us for more information about our show and check us out on instagram at East End show. I'm Deb. Thanks for watching, enjoy the rest of the weekend and we'll see you next time from the East End.

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East End Full Show: Lucia of Mattituck; Eastern Front Brewing Co.; Lumber & Salt

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