City: Port Washington, NY

Category: Restaurants

Telephone: (516) 883-3500

Address: 63 Main St.

Description: Open for lunch and dinner every day except Mon, Yamaguchi serves up classic Japanese cuisine in a casual environment. The restaurant is known for its expertly prepared, ultra-fresh sushi and sashimi, but shabu-shabu and other meat dishes (such as beef or chicken teriyaki skewers) are also available. If you enjoy sushi, you won’t be disappointed. Take-out service is available.

City: Port Washington, NY

Category: Restaurants

Telephone: (516) 883-1515

Address: 286 Main St.

Description: This seafood restaurant is known for its grilled whole-fish dishes that are prepared in a Turkish style (basted in extra virgin olive oil and then cooked on an open flame). It’s a family-friendly restaurant that’s open for lunch and dinner daily. Just about everything on the menu is seafood-related, from the shrimp cocktail and baked clams appetizers, to the broiled flounder fillet and sesame-crusted salmon entrees. There’s also a popular two-pound lobster on the menu, along with entrees prepared using more than 22 different types of freshly caught fish, from flounder to red snapper. Of course, for non–seafood lovers, there are a few steak and chicken options, but most people come here for the fresh seafood, most of which is authentically prepared on an open flame, using cooking techniques perfected in the Mediterranean over thousands of years.

City: Port Washington, NY

Category: Shopping

Telephone: (516) 767-6444

Address: 232 Main St.

Description: The historic building in which this theater is housed was built in 1916 as an elementary school. Today the 425-seat theater offers world-class music, theater, and dance performances to residents and tourists visiting the North Shore. The theater has been fully restored since the early 1900s, and now boasts a state-of-the-art sound system. Big-name recording artists and musicians often appear here.