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Cuvée in Greenport to close after Labor Day

By Vera Chinese

Diners at Cuvee's Pop-up Indian dinner event last month. (Credit: Monique Singh-Roy)

Nearly 15 years after Cuvée Bistro & Bar made its Greenport debut, the Front Street restaurant is preparing to close its doors.

Owner and executive chef Deborah Rivera Pittorino announced this week that Cuvée’s last dinner service will be held Monday, Sept 7. The New American cuisine-style restaurant will remain open for private events; the property’s adjacent Greenporter Hotel, which Pittorino also owns, is unaffected by the news.

In a press release, Pittorino explained that she has decided to close Cuvée due to a “family health issue.” Her husband, Bill, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last summer.

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Photo Credit: Diners at Cuvée’s pop-up Indian dinner last month (Monique Singh-Roy)

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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