Starting this Sunday, November 8, Bay Shore has an indoor winter farmers market. It runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. inside Great South Bay Brewery at 25 Drexel Drive and returns every other Sunday or so through February 21, 2027. Over the summer, the town's market ran on Friday afternoons at the Bandshell on Main Street. In winter, the Sunday shopping moves off Main Street and into a brewery taproom.
A bakery that has been trying to open on Third Avenue since spring 2024 now does its South Shore business at the same brewery. Through November, the brewery holds most of the daytime calendar. Main Street keeps the dinners, and in December it gets the lightings back.
A New Sunday Market Indoors
Long Island Farmers Markets announced the new market as "We found a South Shore home for our winter farmers market!" The group also runs the Babylon Village and Huntington farmers markets, and FarmScout lists the Bay Shore market as a new indoor market for the 2026–27 season. According to FarmScout, the vendors change from week to week, so no two Sundays will look quite the same.
The schedule has gaps, and they're worth putting on the fridge:
| Market Sunday | What else is on the calendar |
|---|---|
| November 8 | Last day of Long Island Restaurant Week |
| November 29 | Thanksgiving weekend |
| December 6 | Chamber's Holiday Spectacular, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. |
| December 20 | Last market before the holidays |
| January 10 and 24, 2027 | |
| February 7 and 21, 2027 | Final two dates of the season |
The brewery has a weekly schedule of its own. The Out on the Town LI venue calendar lists trivia at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and bingo at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays as recurring events. On a market Sunday, the building opens as a market in the late morning and runs on its usual schedule the rest of the week.
The Bakery That Picked the Brewery
Mighty Fine's story explains why Drexel Drive matters this year. In spring 2024, owners Daria and David Lamb bought a building at 9 Third Ave. in Bay Shore and planned to turn it into a sidewalk cafe and their flagship. Greater Long Island reported in October that the permitting process ran long. In the meantime, the couple opened Mighty Fine Eatery & Pie Bar at 43 Green St. in Huntington in April 2026. After seeing how that larger space performed, they decided the Third Avenue building was too small.
"We realized that the building in Bay Shore was no longer going to be large enough to be another Mighty Fine," Lamb told the outlet. The Bay Shore plans are on hold while the owners look for another South Shore location. For now, they reach their South Shore customers through Great South Bay Brewing. A Sweets & Sips Pop-Up at the brewery on October 24 started the partnership. Next is a collaboration beer released on Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving. Mighty Fine is also taking Thanksgiving pie orders for pickup at the brewery that day. The beer's flavor hasn't been revealed.
So in just over a month, the brewery is hosting a weekly farm market, a bakery's holiday pickup and a special-release beer. Nothing else in Bay Shore has a November schedule that full.
What Main Street Holds This Week
Main Street fills its evenings with dinners. Long Island Restaurant Week runs through Sunday, November 8, with four prix-fixe tiers: a $25 two-course lunch and three-course dinners at $30, $40 and $48. Three Bay Shore restaurants are taking part. Bar Lucy is serving Italian at the $48 tier. Captain Bill's offers seafood at $25 and $48, and Roadtrip uses the same two tiers. Just east, Bayberry at 501 Main Street in Islip also offers $25 and $48 menus. If you can make Sunday the 8th work, it holds both the first winter market and the last Restaurant Week dinner, a market lunch on Drexel Drive followed by a prix-fixe dinner downtown.
Two daytime additions from the past few months point downtown in a different direction. In July, Coyle's Homemade Ice Cream opened a second Bay Shore shop at 17 E. Main St., in the storefront that had been Perfect Pasta and Gelato. Coyle's kept its original Bay Shore location, which opened in 1985. "We have wanted for a while to be in downtown Bay Shore, given all that's happening and how lively it has become with all the new development," owner Quadir Russell told Greater Long Island.
On Howells Road, Burkii opened in mid-September. It's a family-run halal cafe from Bay Shore native Sammi Dutt, who spent more than three years renovating the space with his family. The name means "take a bite" in Urdu. The coffee menu includes a Kashmiri latte with rose, cardamom and pistachio and a baklava-inspired latte with pistachio, cardamom and honey. The food side covers sweet chili popcorn chicken, rice bowls and breakfast sandwiches.
The Biggest Room Downtown Is Still Being Built
The largest project downtown is Verde Kitchen & Cocktails' move from 70 East Main Street to 55 West Main Street, the former Peninsula space. Verde marked its 12th anniversary at the East Main address in October. Greater Long Island reported in August that the move had been close to five years in the making. The new building runs about 9,000 square feet, more than three times the 2,700 at the current location. It includes multiple rooms, catering space, a hidden mezcal bar and a rooftop bar. A 12-foot wood-fired grill has arrived to anchor the kitchen. A recreation of Verde's glass greenhouse now sits at the front of the building on West Main instead of out back.
"For the last couple of years, there's only privacy fences and cardboard and construction materials and scaffolding. So, the community is now, I think, more excited than we are just to see what's going on and the building taking shape."
Anthony Tartaglia, founder of Costa Verde Hospitality, said that to Greater Long Island. He added that the goal of a 2026 opening still stood, with no date set as of that August report. The original Verde on East Main was still open daily at the time. Once the new building opens, its rooftop bar and private rooms will give Main Street the kind of large indoor space that the brewery provides on Drexel Drive this winter.
December 6 Fills Both Ends of the Afternoon
In December, the Chamber's lightings bring the calendar back to Main Street, starting at the Bandshell. The Town of Islip lists the Bay Shore Bandshell at 80 E. Main St. in Casamento Park. The Chamber of Commerce of Greater Bay Shore has two dates on its calendar:
- Friday, December 4, 6 to 7 p.m. The Festive Menorah Lighting at the Bandshell.
- Sunday, December 6, 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. The Holiday Spectacular: Tree Lighting & Shopping Village. Last year's edition was held at the Bandshell.
December 6 is also a winter market Sunday. The market at 25 Drexel Drive closes at 3 p.m., and the Holiday Spectacular starts at 3:30, so one afternoon can include both. The farm stands pack up on Drexel Drive at 3, and the tree lighting and shopping village begin half an hour later. December 20 brings one more market before the holidays. After that, the brewery has the Sunday calendar to itself until the season's last market on February 21.
Keeping track of where Bay Shore's weekends happen from one season to the next is part of knowing the town well, and it's knowledge The Agency Long Island has gathered from our Bay Shore office. If you'd like a South Shore neighbor's take on what's opening on Main Street or how a winter here really runs, we'd be glad to talk it through. Contact us.
