Richard Zampella: Skipperdee's Ice Cream & Bakery

Richard Zampella Welcomes to you to Skipperdee's Sweet Parlor

516-431-5000

26 LIDO BOULEVARD

POINT LOOKOUT, NEW YORK 11569

Nostalgic Ice Cream Parlor & Bakery

Richard Zampella has worked in the hospitality industry for over 30 years. He has managed the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel and served as Food & Beverage Manager of the The Essex House Hotel on Central Park South. For 15 years he worked 65 floors high atop Rockefeller Center at the Rainbow Room under legendary restauranteur Joe Baum. In 2009, he created the concept and design for Skipperdee’s Ice Cream Shop in the seaside hamlet of Point Lookout, NY.

Richard Zampella is also a restaurant designer that created the interiors and exterior of Brixx & Barley Restaurant in Long Beach NY. He is also responsible for the bar design for Heneghan’s Tavern in Point Lookout, NY as well as the tavern’s website.

In 2013 Zampella receive a Critics’ Pic from the New York Times as producer for the feature documentary Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen which is narrated by Sam Waterston. The film is currently available on DVD at Walmart, Best Buy and Target.

In 2023 Zampella has two projects airing concurrently on American Public Television in the United States and in Europe on PBS America and Sky TV. The documentaries explore the 1952 film 'High Noon' and the American Writer Elmore Leonard: But Don't Try to Write.

About Richard Zampella: Creator of Skipperdee's

26B Lido Boulevard

Point Lookout, NY 11569

"Celebrating Our 15th Anniversary"

516-431-5000

Richard Zampella is the Owner & Operator of Idylease, a former resort hotel located in Newfoundland, which is an architecturally and historically significant example of early 20th century resort architecture in Northwest, New Jersey.