Jill Zarin’s Luxury Luncheon (also known as the “Luxe Lunch” for short) is the Hamptons’ most fun and diversified summer event. There are numerous lifestyle brands offering their latest and greatest full size items to guests until beautiful white tents—-and there’s always some great food truck and BBQ items to munch on. Let me add that there is always a great choice of cocktails as well! This amazing afternoon is put together by Sean Koski and Brian Kelly of Ticket2Events and they really topped themselves this year. Here are some of the luncheon’s highlights for me! It was about more than just great eats and rubbing elbows with celebs!
It’s always fun to see not only Jill, but her fellow Housewives as well! There is a different batch of Housewives cast members from across the country each year. Jill’s products including her household items and skincare line can be found at the Luxe Lunch tents. The Zarin Home brand rugs are particularly well made and popular. Jill’s outgoing and talented daughter Ally is also an entrepreneur who works with her mom on various lifestyle products including pickleball rackets (which were handed to guests at last year’s event).
One of the most popular booths featured New Chapter vitamins. Guests got to drink mixed berry and orange liquid multivitamin shots which seemed to give off extra energy almost immediately. I admit that they added some spring to my step, LOL! Guests got both multivitamin capsules and liquid and to take home, as well as an ashwaganda blend.
I was excited to check out the Mizz Korea skincare line which really has been getting some good press as of late. This fun booth not only gave tubes of moisturizer to guests but had an amazing gelato cart. There’s nothing more fun than discovering new skincare and eating gelato on a hot summer Saturday.
The eats were fabulous at the Shrimpy Truck parked out by the entrance of the Southampton Inn where the Luxe Lunch took place. So many types of classic American and Mexican cuisine were available—and in huge portions! I was indeed guilty of eating large plates of tacos, chicken fingers and fries!
The cool looking wood paneled drink truck (also known as My Mobile Bar) served an amazing array of cocktails and mocktails. I knocked back a couple of the Spicy Jalapeño Margaritas and to say that they had a kick was an understatement. I love a spicy drink and could not get enough of these!
I enjoyed having both the chocolate and salted caramel gelato at the booth featuring the ColdSnap machine. This amazing device allows people to make a generously sized gelato at home in under two minutes with no muss and no fuss! All you have to do is insert one of the pictured cans of ColdSnap mix into the top of the machine. There are even boozy flavors and a couple of healthy ones made with oats and fruit! You can buy one of these on staples.com and coldsnap.com for $1950.
One of the real highlights at the Jill Zarin Luxe Lunch is what I call the “help yourself” shelves of lifestyle products. This year some of the great items were Sunday Riley five piece skincare sets, Grande Lash hair growth products, Carbone tomato sauce, Tommy Hilfiger’s Tommy Girl fragrance, No. 7 Skincare, Elta MD skincare and Coola sun products.
Hulken had this adorable “garden swing” photo op and gifted guests cute keychains shaped like their bags. I love that Hulken bags let you shop all day and then “schlep in style.” These bags are available in all shades of gorgeous metallics and the material seems to be indestructible! The VIP gift bags were the coppery colored Hulkens stuffed with many of the items on display in the tents.
Madison Avenue Couture—who has a beautiful store at 50 West 57th Street—had a great table with Birkin bags, candles and accessories that were swoon worthy. They are one of New York City’s top Birkin resellers and were featured in the New York Post last month. Madison Avenue Couture gave out towels and cookies shaped like Birkin bags (which you can see at the bottom right of the above photo).
I always love the way the sponsoring brands’ logos are posted on the “step and repeat” at Jill Zarin’s Luxe Lunch. This step and repeat was crowded until the very end of the event when I took this photo. If I could have taken it home and made it a wall of my apartment, I would have, LOL! I can’t walk to go back to Jill Zarin’s Luxe Lunch next year as it’s not only a fun time but benefits a worthy cause (the International Thyroid Oncology Group).
