THE JOY OF SOUTHAMPTON THE DRIVER'S SEAT
**** The Driver’s Seat -Longtime Hamptons Mainstay Celebrates End of 50th Summer **** Story By: Edward Callaghan **** Irma Herzog The Driver's Seat Restaurant Landmark Hamptons restaurant The Driver’s Seat celebrated its 50th summer with Special Happy Hours Monday through Sunday from 5pm-6pm now through Labor Day Weekend to thank their loyal year round and summer patrons. What began as a produce store built in 1888 on America’s oldest commercial street Job’s Lane in tony Southampton and first used as a restaurant in 1960 has become one of the Hamptons most enduring dining spots - The Driver’s Seat.This month the current owners Irma and Ken Herzog will wrap up the 50th Summer of the wildly popular eatery. Following an exterior facelift last year, The Herzogs set about transforming the interior into less of a dark pub like atmosphere into a more contemporary, light and airy quintessential Hamptons eatery without attitude. Now when diners arrive their eyes are drawn immediately to t...