You didn’t go for the food. There were better places for that, and everyone knew it. But every so often, you’d go anyway. You’d sit on the porch, order A GIMLET, and watch the boats drift in and out of the harbor as the light changed. It was easy. Uncomplicated. Occasionally chaotic in August WITH THE GUEST FROM NEW JERSEY AND HIS BOOM BOX — but then again, so is everything out here.

Now it’s Faraway Sag Harbor, and the shift is clear, even if it isn’t dramatic.

The bones remain — the same waterfront setting, the same proximity to Main Street — but everything around it feels more considered. The redesign leans in: cleaner lines, more defined spaces, a sense that the experience is being shaped.

Faraway is part of a growing boutique hotel group backed by Blue Flag Capital, with sister properties in places like Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. Their approach is fairly consistent: take legacy properties, keep the structure, and rework the experience into something more design-driven, more curated, and a bit more current.

As for the restaurant, it’s still early. There’s talk of something more directional, more of a draw—but whether it becomes a destination in its own right remains to be seen. And perhaps that’s beside the point.

Because what made Baron’s Cove work was never really what was on the plate.

It was the porch.

That stretch of space where you could sit without much of a plan, where time moved a little more slowly, where the harbor did most of the work. It’s the one thing that can’t be redesigned, no matter how much else changes.

Faraway seems to understand that — at least for now. It refines the edges, tightens the experience, and leaves the view to carry the rest.

faraway sag harbor
31 W water street
sag harbor
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