Search East End places
search_placesSearches the guide's verified venues across the Hamptons and North Fork: restaurants, breakfast, nightlife, wine, wellness, hair salons, ice cream, farm stands and oyster farms. The search covers the fields each section keeps, not only venue names: 'pick-your-own' matches the farms that run it, 'sunflowers' the ones that grow them, 'sorbet' the scoop shops that make it. Each match carries address, phone, an open/closed state with closing time computed on the East End's clock (America/New_York), and provenance: source and sourceUrl (what was read), lastVerified (when) and verifiedBy (manual = an editor read it, api = Google Places sweep). Where a venue publishes hours as prose rather than a machine schedule the row carries hoursText, the operator's published line, instead of openState. seasonalCaution appears on every venue verified as not year-round, 76 in all (16 of Montauk's restaurants, 12 of its bars). On those rows openState is computed only on a date inside a season window or a dated trading confirmation the guide holds and is otherwise omitted in every month, because the weekly hours an operator leaves published are the summer table. Where the operator has published a closure, openState reads "closed for the season" and seasonalCaution quotes the operator's words with the date they were read. Permanently closed venues are excluded. Returns up to 8 matches and the total matched. Each venue row also carries mapUrl, a link to the guide's live map centred on that venue (hamptonsverified.com/near-me?focus=…), and the answer carries one top-level mapUrl for the whole list. The map asks for the reader's location on their own device; the link carries no position. townScope reports how the place argument was read; townScope.recognized: false means the name matched no East End place, the rows array is empty, and didYouMean lists near matches where any exist.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| town | No | A hamlet ('Montauk', 'Sag Harbor') or a region ('the Hamptons', 'North Fork', 'East End'), in the asker's own words: a trailing state and ZIP, British spellings and typos are resolved. | |
| query | Yes | What to look for, e.g. 'rosé', 'lobster roll', 'sauna', 'sweet corn', 'pick-your-own' | |
| category | No |