Michael Meehan and Tom Schaudel are back for an encore. After the success of their February pop-up wine dinner in Mattituck , they are taking over the kitchen at Southold Social on Nov. 13 to present a $120, five-course tasting menu that features the wines of Pellegrini Vineyards in Cutchogue.

The encore is itself a reprise of the chefs’ storied careers. The two worked together briefly in the '80s when Schaudel was the chef at Garvins in Huntington and Meehan was working the line across the street at Rose & Thistle. "We didn’t do lunch," Meehan recalled, "but Garvins did. So I’d cook with Tom during the day, then flip my apron over and go back to Rose & Thistle for dinner."

Since then, they’ve maintained a close friendship, cooking at festivals, going on chef junket trips. "We’ve misse

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