Oct. 12, 2026 by Emily Toy, Southforker.com
⬜️ The Sag Harbor Food Pantry‘s first-ever Supper Stroll is set for Saturday, Oct. 24, already sold out and already sure to be a beloved new tradition the community will look forward to.
“We’re really excited about it and the restaurants have all been very generous,” says Terie Diat, executive director of the pantry. “And so are the folks that purchased the tickets, so we hope it’ll be a great success. We expect it will be. We hope it will become an annual event, too.”
Tickets to the Sag Harbor Food Pantry’s fundraiser sold out in just two weeks!
Formulated by a small committee within the team at the pantry, which is located at Old Whalers’ Church (44 Union St.), the supper stroll is a new fundraising effort for the nonprofit. For the stroll, one hundred tickets were sold at $100 per person.
“It’s a nice fundraiser,” Diat says. “We’re putting a bit more of a focus on fundraising for the pantry. We’ve traditionally done, at the end of the year, a direct mail campaign, but we haven’t done a lot in the way of community centric, in-person type fundraising. So, this is our sort of our first big, if you will, foray into it. We’re pleased so far with how this is going.”
Those participating in the supper stroll will meet at Sagtown Coffee around 3:30 p.m. to receive their passport booklets, which serve as admission to all eight of the restaurant site locations. Supper stroll ticket holders will be able to dine on a signature appetizer or tapas-sized dish at each restaurant between 4 and 7 p.m., in whichever order they’d like.
Eight restaurants are participating: Il Capuccino, Lulu Kitchen & Bar, Tutto il Giorno, Sag Pizza, Page, Dopo La Spiaggia, Sen and K Pasa. Additionally, Grindstone Coffee & Donuts and Après Sagtown (the after 5 p.m. small plate and cocktail initiative at Sagtown Coffee) will be offering up complimentary cocktails and dessert after the supper stroll.
According to Diat, the food pantry serves about 100 to 125 families each week, which translates to about 400 people in total for each week.
“We are here every Tuesday from 10 a.m. until noon for people that need to avail themselves of our services, and we serve anybody in the Sag Harbor School District. So people just need to live in the Sag Harbor School District to come to the food pantry.”
According to Long Island Care, a food bank serving both Nassau and Suffolk counties, over 250,000 people (including almost 80,000 children) on Long Island suffer from food insecurity.
“As much as it is really important for us to fundraise to support the sustainability of the work that we do because, I will tell you, that about 60% of the food that we distribute we do purchase,” Diat says. “So, it’s important that we continue to have a sort of a continuous stream of donations coming in that way. But I think it’s also important to build the awareness of the pantry in the community and the work that we do, because there are people in need in Sag Harbor of our services.”