Iconic Montauk Inn On The Market

Surfside Inn, a longtime Montauk hostelry on Old Montauk Highway, has been relisted for sale. Close to downtown Montauk, the restaurant and inn is listed with Hal Zwick and Jeff Sztorc of Hamptons Compass Commercial asking $7.25 million. 

Just across from Umbrella Beach, the 0.43-acre property offers spectacular ocean views from its indoor and outdoor dining areas. The 5,100-square-foot building includes 11 guest rooms on the third and fourth floors. The restaurant seats about 70, with a lounge area, bar, and outdoor dining on a deck and covered porches.

The inn was originally a telegraph station by the Point. Old family friends of this writer Hilda and Knowles Smith moved the building to the old highway in the early 1920s and called it the Wyandanch. Other names for the inn over the years included the Ocean View, the Anzac House, and Surf & Sand; during WWII Coast Guard officers were billeted there. No wonder that its motto is “Montauk, the way it used to be.” 

Such an offering includes grandfathered commercial space that cannot be replicated elsewhere, but, of course, the potential exists to reconfigure the guest rooms to be larger and the restaurant to be rearranged. There is also an apartment for the owners, as well as a detached garage in the rear.