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Pittsfield's Crust will open a second location in Williamstown, setting up shop in the space formerly occupied by The Red Herring.
The shop takes some of the elements of King’s and Gelinas’s successful Wigwam Western Summit establishment in North Adams, but, among other changes, adds boba tea.
Dylan Brewer, 30, is buying the business from founders and owners Tracey and Alan “Ozzie” Lussier, who will stay actively involved at the 20-year breakfast and lunch destination after the transaction.
The restaurant, which will open in North Adams in late April, will be the first Black-owned restaurant on the campus of Mass MoCA.
According to the Tavern and Inn’s Facebook page, the restaurant opens March 1 and has chicken wings, calamari, shrimp cocktail, mozzarella sticks, nachos, soups, salads, flat breads, steak, burgers, pastas, fish and other items.
Amici, the casual Italian restaurant on the first floor at 5 Albany Road, is aiming for a late May reopening following a Jan. 20 pizza oven fire.
Christin Fetterolf, nicknamed "Red" for her hair color, and her husband, Bill Sweeney, bought the Viking Pub building at 83 Commercial St. in Adams from Scott Lee on an October morning last year and had it running under its new name by the afternoon: Red's Viking Pub.
The much anticipated Hot Plate Brewery opened Thursday afternoon. The Berkshire Eagle paid the brewery a visit for a preview of customers can expect from Pittsfield's newest downtown addition.
“They all were saying the same thing: It’s a decent meal that they can afford and it fills them up. It’s nothing fancy. It’s just good food for a good price.” And this is how the VFW bounces back from the pandemic.
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Need a reason to eat locally grown, raised or produced food? We can think of more than a few reasons for why you should make the effort (better flavor, more nutrients, support of the local economy). …
Berkshire Agriculture Ventures, a Berkshires-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting local farmers and food entrepreneurs, is attempting to address the processing bottlenecks for livestock farmers in the Berkshires with its new Local Meat Processing Support Program. The short-term goal of the program is to increase processing capacity by 25 percent for existing USDA-inspected processors, which will help Berkshire farmers get more locally-raised meat to the community.
At Mezze Bistro + Bar, chef Nicholas Moulton and company don't just cook the pork that is a staple of the Williamstown restaurant's regularly changing menus. They feed it.Mezze staffers often bring …
