Around 7 p.m. Thursday — just after aperitivo hour — plates of $85 veal parmesan and $82 strip loin were landing on the white-clothed tables at the East Hamptons outpost of Sartiano’s, the trendy Soho Italian restaurant frequented by celebs such as Paul McCartney, Martha Stewart, Margot Robbie and Gisele Bündchen.
But outside the Hedges Inn, which houses the hotspot, trouble seemed to be brewing. As The Post watched, East Hampton cops circled the building four times in less than 30 minutes.
Just after 10 p.m., a restaurant staffer whispered, “There’s a SWAT team outside” — an exaggeration, to be sure, but three police officers surrounded the hydrangea-dappled entrance to slap Sartiano’s with two village violations for “noise,” including recorded music, that could be heard “from 50 feet away,” a restaurant insider told The Post, noting there were no fines.
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