We take a look back at restaurants that opened their doors for the first time in 2022.
Pittsfield native Cheryl Murray grabbed the chance to run Sweet Dreams, entrepreneur Ryan Salame’s newest venture in his expanding downtown dining empire.
Xavier Jones, of BiggDaddy’s Philly Steak House fame, is coming back to Adams. Jones and co-owner Warren Dews Jr. will try something new: a Mediterranean-infused small plates restaurant at Park Street’s historic Firehouse Cafe.
Lift Bistropub, a new full-service bar and restaurant at Bousquet Mountain, officially opened for business on Thursday
Momma Lo’s Southern Style BBQ prepares for a March 4 launch in Great Barrington.
An Albany couple has brought Oaxacan cuisine to the Berkshires. Gricelda and Hector Herrera have opened Antojitos Oaxaca in the former Sullivan Station restaurant on Railroad Street in Lee.
Rob Trask, owner of 51 Park in Lee, aims to open his Antimony restaurant-brewery at the entrance to Lenox Commons by late this year or in early 2023, filling a long-vacant, high-profile location.
Stephanie Burdick hopes to open the smoothie shop by Memorial Day weekend.
Joad Bowman and Austin Oliver, who own two restaurants in downtown Pittsfield, believe in the city so much that have opened a third small enterprise, Lulu's Tiny Grocery.
The opening of the new Chipotle on Hubbard Avenue has Pittsfield residents stopping in for fresh food and something new.
With the pandemic raging in the summer of 2020, Joe Prince was looking for a space from which he could operate his antiques business when he came across the run-down former Vacation Village sales center, which had been vacant for 12 years or so.
The storefront that once housed Neville's Donut Shop, a North Adams landmark, will soon have a new life as a bakery and cafe. "The Boho Parlor," a handmade sign on the door of 145 Eagle St. now reads.
A couple originally from the Ivory Coast has opened the House of Seasoning Grill in Pittsfield, featuring African and American cuisine. "We tried to bring something new," Raissa Doumbia says. "It's a new taste for the town."
Farah Momen, a winner of the Top Chef Amateurs television cooking show, has opened "Bondhu," a community culinary space at the former Mill on the Floss Restaurant in New Ashford.
The "Coming Soon" banner up all summer will be taken down Friday at 41 North St. in Pittsfield. We caught up with the new restaurant's owners, who shared what they will be serving and how they hope to welcome all.
Things are heating up in the Pittsfield dining scene this winter with the addition of four recently opened Mexican or Latin American restaurants.