Mr & Mrs Smith

Long-standing Hamptons favourite, Nick & Toni’s on North Main Street (+1 631 324 3550; www.nickandtonis.com) serves rustic Italian fare, including pizza in summer, from the mosaic-clad wood-fired oven at the heart of this three-room trattoria. Lunch on griddled flatbread pizza or perfectly cooked pasta in a leather booth or outdoors at Milanese eatery, Cittanuova on Newtown Lane (+1 631 324 6300; www.cittanuova.com). White linen and navy upholstery remind you you’re marina-side in the restaurant at East Hampton Point on Three Mile Harbor Road – as do the unimpeded sunset views of boats bobbing in the harbour and the just-caught seafood on the menu.

The hotel bar at the Maidstone on Main Street (+1 631 324 5440; www.themaidstone.com) is somewhere to linger over the 200-strong wine list or sample local microbrews in an informal but sophisticated setting.

Irresistible brownies, generously loaded wraps and delicious salads make the Golden Pear Café on Main Street hard to pass by (+1 631 329 1600; www.goldenpearcafe.com).

Dance, lounge, then dance some more at hip, bunker-like club, The Lily Pond on Three Mile Harbor Road (+1 646 619 1217). Admire the manicured lawns as the breeze carries the pop, hip-hop and house soundtrack to your retro banquette outside.

Slope off to a day-bed in the garden and lose yourself in a novel until your eyelids droop. If you must leave the house, traditional Hamptons pursuits include browsing the galleries in East Hampton and Sag Harbor; trawling the boutiques outside your door on Main Street and the Circle; hanging with the surf crowd in boho Montauk; whiling the day away on the beach – try mansion-fringed Coopers Beach in Southampton or the sandy flats of Main Beach in East Hampton.