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Berkshire County
51 PARK RESTAURANT & TAVERN
51 Park St., Lee, MA 01238; (413) 243-2153
ALPAMAYO RESTAURANT
60 Main St., Lee, MA 01238; (413) 243-6000
DISTRICT KITCHEN & BAR
40 West St., Pittsfield, MA 01201; (413) 442-0303
EAT ON NORTH
297 North St., Pittsfield, MA 01201; (413) 553-4210
FIREFLY GASTROPUB & CATERING CO.
71 Church St., Lenox, MA 01240; (413) 637-2700
FRANKIE’S RISTORANTE ITALIANO
80 Main St., Lenox, MA 01240; (413) 637-4455
RESTAURANT
BARRINGTON BREWERY & RESTAURANT
420 Stockbridge Road; Great Barrington, MA 01230; (413) 528-8282
BLANTYRE
16 Blantyre Road, Lenox, MA 01240; (844) 881-0104
BLUE HERON RESTAURANT AND CATERING
112 North Main St., Sunderland, MA 01375; (413) 665-2102
CHEZ NOUS
150 Main St., Lee, MA 01238; (413) 243-6397
GEDNEY FARM
34 Hartsville-New Marlboro Road, New Marlborough, MA 01230; (413) 229-3131
HAFLINGER HAUS RESTAURANT, TAVERN & INN
17 Commercial St., Adams, MA 01220; (413) 743-2221
JOHN ANDREWS FARMHOUSE RESTAURANT
224 Hillsdale Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230; (413) 528-3469
MAZZEO’S RISTORANTE
1015 South St., Pittsfield, MA 01201; (413) 448-2095
WEBSITE
www.51parkrestaurant.com
www.alpamayorestaurant.com
www.barringtonbrewery.net
www.blantyre.com
www.blueherondining.com
www.cheznousbistro.com
district.kitchen
hotelonnorth.com/eat-drink/eat
www.fireflylenox.com
www.frankiesitaliano.com
www.gedneyfarm.com
www.haflingerhaus.com
www.johnandrewsrestaurant.com
www.mazzeosristorante.com
RESTAURANTS
LISTED ALPHABETICALLY BY COUNTY
CUISINE
American
Peruvian
American
Contemporary American
Eclectic American
French
American Gastropub
American
Upscale Comfort Food
Italian American
Contemporary American
Austrian American
New American Regional
Italian, Gluten-free
ENTREE RANGE
$15 – $23
$10 – $30
$16 – $25
$115 per person
$24 – $32
$14 – $32
$17 – $25
$12 – $40
$17 – $35
$17 – $29
$18 – $32
$18 – $35
$24 – $34
$13 – $30
SEATING CAPACITY
86
33
90
50+
120
75
50
100
100
38
N/A
88
73
100
OWNER(S)
Rob Trask
Javier Fernando
Gary Happ Andrew Mankin
Linda Law
Barbara White Deborah Snow
Franck Tessier Rachel Portnoy
Jared Decoteau
David Tierney Laurie Tierney
Laura Shack
The Ferioli Family
N/A
Sommers Family
Dan Smith
Anthony Mazzeo
Outdoors
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the loss of parking that results from this concession to restaurants, city lead-
ers heard enough positive feedback
last year to allow eateries to push out past the curb again along Main Street, Pleasant Street, Pearl Street, Masonic Street, and other spots — and, in cases like Strong Avenue, well beyond the curb.
“The city has been really wonderful to work with,” Flynn said. “Everyone from the City Hall to the DNA [Down- town Northampton Assoc.] to the chamber has been really helpful. I feel really good about the way things are going right now.”
Meanwhile, a recent order by East- hampton Mayor Nicole LaChapelle will allow restaurants and retailers on Main, Cottage, and Union streets to expand their seating options and retail spaces
into parking spots and other public spaces. Businesses interested in the exemption must first submit detailed plans, including a review for ADA com- pliance, an exterior lighting plan, and a timeline for how long the outdoor seat- ing will stay in place.
Easthampton allowed a similar outdoor-dining expansion last year from August to November in an effort to support local businesses struggling to navigate the economic impact of the pandemic. But with the accom- modation being announced late in the summer season, only one restaurant, the Silver Spoon on Main Street, ended up using parking spaces for seating. The mayor expects interest from many more businesses this year.
One reason is the still-prevalent sen- timent, even after the majority of Mas- sachusetts adults have been vaccinated against COVID, that dining outdoors
just feels like a safer option. “Anyone who’s concerned about
coming in, we have the outdoor seat- ing, and they can feel safe outdoors,” Gottschlicht said. “Or indoors, too — but, yeah, there’s plenty of fresh air and open space out there.”
Kiesha Fortin, longtime manager at the Munich Haus, said she looks for- ward to the day when distancing rules end and she can put more tables on the biergarten patio, due to how popular that option is. Most people are clam- oring to eat out, she noted, but many prefer to do it outdoors.
The pent-up desire to eat out has posed another challenge to restaurants, Collins said — staffing up to meet ris- ing demand.
“We’re seeing more and more peo- ple coming back to eat, but the biggest challenge for our business, and every- one I’ve talked to in my line of work,
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is the way unemployment benefits
are being handled. We’re having prob- lems getting entry-level employees in the door because everyone is making more staying at home. Typically we run around 95 employees, but we’ve been struggling to stay above 75.”
That said, “hopefully people start- ing to come back out will have a little patience and realize what things were like a year and a half ago is not the current scenario,” Collins added. “It’s not that we don’t want to hire people back; we just have no people coming through the door to work.”
They are coming to eat, though, especially to restaurants serving up meals outdoors — a development that, for this beleaguered industry, has cer- tainly been a breath of fresh air. u
Joseph Bednar can be reached at [email protected]
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