Home › Venues › Gold Coast Mansions
Foodies Cafe LI publishes $125 per person and up for a wedding at this address, covering the wedding menu and a top shelf open bar. That figure sits on the caterer's own site rather than the estate's, and the estate publishes no prices at all. The Mariner Estate runs one event at a time, which it states itself, and its ballroom seats 240 with a building capacity of 300 for a flowing reception. The Knot lists a $4,000 starting price for the reception space, which buys the room and nothing else.
The only per person figure here belongs to the caterer, not the venue, and the distinction matters because the estate could pair with someone else tomorrow. Foodies Cafe LI publishes $125 per person and up and states it charges no administrative or service fee, which is unusual and worth verifying in writing. The Knot's $4,000 is a room rental starting price, and its $7,600 typical spend is a platform estimate rather than a quote from anyone.
We read marinerestate.com and its info page, the Foodies Cafe LI page for this venue and The Knot listing, all on 10 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the venue’s own site or rate card; marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
The estate's WeddingWire listing sits at a URL belonging to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, so treat that listing as unverified and do not rely on it.
The $125 per person comes from Foodies Cafe LI, the estate's named catering partner, on the caterer's own venue page for this property. It is a first party rate card, published by the business that would cook your dinner, and it is not on marinerestate.com.
The $4,000 comes from The Knot, which lists it as a starting price for the reception space. It is a room rental figure. The Knot lists catering, ceremony and bar as contact for price on the same listing, and notes that starting prices exclude service fees, taxes, gratuity and rental fees.
Stack them and you have the shape of a budget rather than a budget. Site rental from the estate, catering and bar from a caterer, taxes and gratuity on top of both. The Knot separately says couples usually spend $7,600, which is a platform estimate and not a quote.
That sentence is rare enough on Long Island to be worth its own heading. Foodies Cafe LI states on its page for this venue that it charges no administrative fee and no service fee. Its $125 per person figure excludes site rental fees, taxes and gratuity.
On a Nassau County catering contract, an administrative fee and a service charge together frequently add a fifth or more to the food number. A caterer that removes both from its own quote is making a claim you should verify in writing and then read against every competing proposal.
A complimentary tasting with the executive chef is included for booked events. The caterer's page describes it as joining the team at the estate rather than as an exclusive arrangement, so other caterers may be permitted. Ask the estate directly whether you can bring your own.
The estate states on its own info page that it runs one event at a time. That is first party, and at a Nassau venue it is the single most valuable thing on the page after the capacity.
What is included with the space, per the estate: valet parking, coat check, an in house coordinator, Chiavari chairs and tables, and audio visual equipment. Live music and DJs are both permitted. A preferred vendor list is available on request.
There is also a catering prep kitchen on site for vendor use. That is the piece that makes the bring your own model work. A caterer without a kitchen at the venue is a caterer trucking hot food across Nassau County, and the estate has removed that problem.
The estate publishes a ballroom capacity of 240 for a seated dinner and a building capacity of 300 for a flowing reception. The Knot bands the venue at 151 to 200 guests while repeating the 240 and 300 figures further down the same listing.
Use the estate's numbers. A listing that carries two incompatible capacity claims in one page is not a source to plan against, and the venue's own figures are both specific and formatted the way a floor plan would produce them.
A ceremony site is available on the property. Ceremony capacity is not published separately, and neither the garden nor the patio carries its own number. If you are planning a ceremony outdoors for 240, that is a question for the tour.
The logo carries EST. 2020, on the estate's own info page. There is no building history, no original estate name and no architect anywhere on the site. The catering partner describes the ballroom as having a 30 foot ceiling, which is the only structural detail in print.
That matters if you came looking for a Gold Coast mansion with a documented past. Great Neck has several of those and this venue does not present itself as one. It presents as a purpose run event property with a modern operating model.
The absence of history is not a defect, and it does mean the marketing photographs are carrying claims the text does not support. Ask what the building was before 2020 if it matters to you.
The estate's WeddingWire listing sits at a URL slug belonging to the United States Merchant Marine Academy, which suggests a listing repurposed from another venue. We are not linking it and we would not rely on anything in its history or its identity.
The blanks are ordinary but they are still blanks. No food and beverage minimum and no guest minimum is published by the estate or the caterer. No end time or curfew is published. No rain plan is published, despite a garden and a patio being offered.
Venue side service charges are also unpublished. The caterer's no fee claim covers the caterer's own invoice. What the estate adds to the site rental, and on what basis, is a question for the estate.
A 120 acre Lessing's estate in Woodbury whose wedding menu publishes a 22% administrative fee, one of the few on Long Island that prints the number.
A 1918 Roslyn Heights mansion restored to its 1920s look, with a 150 guest minimum and a peak season starting price of $35,000 on WeddingWire.
The former Sans Souci house above Long Island Sound, one event at a time, a 205 seat ballroom, and $155 to $225 a head published on their own site.
A 1910 Charles A. Platt house on 55 acres with 186 hotel rooms, a 220 seat ballroom indoors and a tent published for 700 outside.
A 1923 Tudor Revival house on 86 acres above Long Island Sound, rented as a venue only for a flat fee, with a caterer you hire yourself.
Members only for Mansion events since the Village's 9 April 2025 notice, on roughly 210 Sands Point acres with a Tom Doak golf course.