Prince Street Hospitality opens Alba Spiaggia, handmade pasta in Montauk

Montauk added a new reason to make the drive to the far end of Long Island: Alba Spiaggia opened at Montauk Yacht Club as Prince Street Hospitality’s latest coastal Italian restaurant, built around handmade pasta and an open-fire kitchen.

The menu does not treat pasta like an afterthought. Alba Spiaggia was set up around seasonal Italian fare that runs from crudos, salads and antipasti to grilled fish, wood-fired pizza and house-made pastas, all cooked over an open fire. The concept is aimed at the kind of meal that can start as a long lunch and stretch into dinner, which fits the waterfront setting at Star Island and the club’s view of itself as a full-season destination rather than a one-off summer stop.

That setting gives the opening real weight on the East End. Montauk Yacht Club sits on 16 acres on Lake Montauk and says it has 106 waterfront rooms and suites, a full-service marina, three pools and a private beach. It also calls itself the Hamptons’ largest marina, with room for everything from day boats to 300-foot superyachts. Alba Spiaggia arrives as part of the club’s Summer 2026 relaunch, alongside a renovated racquet center for padel, tennis and pickleball and a floating wellness cabana, turning the restaurant into part of a larger property-wide reset.

The kitchen has a familiar name behind it. Chef Adam Leonti is identified with Alba Spiaggia’s menu, extending a line that has already included Cucina Alba in New York and Alba in Los Angeles. His work on the West Coast was described as “vacation Italian,” a label that fits the Montauk brief neatly: relaxed but polished, with enough technique to stand up to a destination dining room.

Prince Street Hospitality, run by Cobi Levy and Will Makris, has built its name on crowd-drawing spots in Manhattan and Los Angeles, so Alba Spiaggia is more than a beach-town experiment. It is an established hospitality group planting a flag in Montauk with a clear idea of what the plate should look like. For pasta seekers headed east this season, that means a room where the handmade noodles, wood-fired heat and waterfront backdrop all arrive together, and none of them feels incidental.