Seasonally-Driven.
Globally Inspired.
Rooted in place.
Coray Kitchen is a chef-driven restaurant in Delmar, New York, serving seasonal food, thoughtful cocktails, and small-production wines in a warm, intimate dining room.
Led by Chef Javier, our cooking begins with what is growing around us and moves outward drawing from Latin American flavors, global culinary traditions, and the ingredients, techniques, and ideas that continue to inspire us.
Come for dinner. Stay for how it feels.
Hours
Tuesday - Thursday: 5–9 PM
Friday & Saturday: 4-9 PM
Sunday + Monday: Closed
Inside Dining and Take Out Available
Reservations are encouraged, but not required.
Oyster Happy Hour
Friday & Saturday: 4-5:30pm
$2 oysters, food and drinks specials,
only available at the bar and on the patio
Menus
Menus change with the seasons.
We always have rotating nightly specials.
Call us or come in to see current offerings.
GIFT CARDS
A Culinary Point of View
Since opening Coray Kitchen, our food has continued to evolve.
What began with a commitment to seasonal ingredients and local farms has grown into a more distinct culinary language, one shaped by Chef Javier’s heritage, years in professional kitchens, relationships with growers and producers, and an ongoing curiosity about how flavors and traditions can meet on the plate.
Our menus might move between ceviche and handmade pasta, tostones and duck confit, Korean-inspired flavors and Spanish paella. We aren’t interested in defining the food by a single cuisine.
We’re interested in making food that feels unmistakably like Coray: seasonal, expressive, generous, and alive.
FARM-TO-TABLE, EVOLVED
Cooking With the Season, Not Around It
Our menus change throughout the year based on what our farmers are growing, what we are harvesting from our own garden, and what ingredients are at their best right now.
Those ingredients become the starting point, not necessarily the ending point. We pair the abundance of Upstate New York with flavors, techniques, and traditions from farther afield, creating food that feels grounded in this place without being limited by it.
The Coray Experience
Dinner Should Feel Like Something
We believe the best restaurants do more than feed people.
Coray was built around a simple idea: Hospitality is at its best when it’s felt.
That means food with a point of view, drinks made with intention, genuine hospitality, and a dining room where people can settle in, get curious, celebrate, connect, and occasionally encounter something they didn’t expect.
Fine dining doesn’t have to mean formality. For us, it means care: care for the ingredient, the craft, the person sitting at the table, and the experience we’re creating together.
Beverage / Bar
The Same Curiosity, In Your Glass
Our beverage program has grown alongside our kitchen. Seasonal cocktails incorporate house-made ingredients, garden herbs, shrubs, infusions, and unexpected flavors. Our wine list favors small producers, natural processes, and bottles with a story to tell.
Whether it’s a cocktail inspired by what’s growing outside or a wine selected specifically for a dish, the bar isn’t separate from the culinary experience. It’s another expression of it.