Carissa's The Bakery

Carissa Waechter and Lori Chemla built Carissa's the Bakery around a sourdough starter that traces to Amagansett in 1965, expanding from a small bread-focused shop on Newtown Lane into the Pantigo Road flagship on Route 27, between East Hampton and Amagansett, now the largest of the group's three Hamptons locations.The Pantigo space won the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Restaurant Design award in 2020, and it functions as a full bakery, café and small restaurant with a bar, not just a…