After nearly 30 years in Bridgehampton, the Golden Pear Cafe will close as of Monday. Owner Keith Davis said he was not able to negotiate a new lease for the Montauk Highway space.

"We operated for more than 10,890 consecutive days with excellence and pride — a rare record in the restaurant world," Davis wrote in a letter to the community shared with Newsday. The chain's other locations in Southampton and East Hampton will remain open.

“This is just a very unfortunate, unprecedented situation as far as the Hamptons goes,” Davis said in a phone interview with Newsday Friday morning. Nine full-time employees at the Bridgehampton cafe will be out of a job at the end of the day Sunday, he said. Meanwhile he is looking at two other spaces in the community to reopen.

Davis opened the first

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