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Comtesse Therese Bistro owners eye mid-September launch

By Vera Chinese

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO
Arie Pavlou, head chef of Cometesse Therese Bistro, holds a
“chicken of the woods” mushroom he gathered from a wooded area
in Wading River.

Last spring, a “coming soon” sign appeared outside the Comtesse Therese Bistro in Aquebogue promising that the restaurant, which has been in the works for five years, would be opening shortly. But since then, the doors to the North Fork’s first restaurant to be operated by a local vineyard owner have remained closed and the kitchen empty.
The operators now say opening day, held up for years by red tape, really is right around the corner. And if all goes according to plan, the 28-seat restaurant and tasting room will open by mid-September.
“I kept having to say, ‘No, it’s not open,” said the restaurant’s owner and namesake, Theresa Dilworth. She is also proprietor of Le Clos Th

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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