Emily Smith

Emily Smith

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Celeb-favorite Hamptons seafood market burns to the ground

A Hamptons culinary landmark burned to the ground over the weekend.

The Clamman, a local seafood market in Southampton favored by CNN’s Anthony Bourdain (spotted buying cod 10 days ago), Kelly Ripa, George Soros and his son Alex (Clamman catered a party for Soros attended by Chelsea Clinton three weeks ago), Rick and Kathy Hilton, attorney Arthur Aidala and chef Rocco DiSpirito, who was shopping at the market the day before it burned down on Thursday night in a suspected electrical fire.

The Southampton Fire Department said that 10 trucks and 55 firefighters were dispatched to the scene.

The very next morning and all weekend, owner Jean Mackenzie set out her fresh fish stalls on ice under a tent in her parking lot so not to disappoint her customers.

Mackenzie — who was once famously sued by Manhattan’s Four Seasons restaurant for calling her catering company Four Seasons of Southampton — moved all her orders for lobster bakes and hot food to her Seasons of Southampton a few blocks away, demonstrating true East End grit.

She told the town’s chefs and her famous clients she will remain open in her parking lot into the fall and rebuild the venerable market during the offseason.