Cliff's Elbow Room • 1958

Wood-paneled and worn-in right, this North Fork staple packs customers elbow-to-elbow for marinated porterhouse steaks finished with a salty char and Joan Saunders' award-winning clam chowder, still stirred fresh daily by the third-generation matriarch. Cliff Saunders III runs the room now, same as his father and grandfather before him, where regulars order without glancing at the menu and a framed 1965 price list on the wall reminds diners that some things—like the perfectly consistent food—never change.