Don’t let the unassuming store front fool you…we have found our favorite stop in downtown Lenox, Massachusetts, and have already been back for a second visit. Brava wine and tapas bar is located at 27 Housatonic Street and is a true find. We like sitting at the bar and trying out different wines […]
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A Picnic at Tanglewood
Tanglewood Music Festival is in Lenox, Massachusetts. It is celebrating its 75th year. Tonight was opening night with an all Beethoven program performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. While we’ve sat in the shed before, we opted to sit out on the lawn tonight to enjoy our picnic snacks. We had already […]
Chocolate Raspberry Peanut Clusters
Have you ever needed a quick and easy dessert or culinary hostess gift? These fabulous little chocolate raspberry peanut clusters could be just what you are looking for! I used to make these candies all the time, but then a few years ago supermarkets where we live stopped carrying raspberry chocolate chips. […]
Rubiner’s Cheesemongers & Grocers Great Barrington, Massachusetts
We had the great luck of ending up in Great Barrington yesterday. So rare to have an afternoon together, yet we managed one, and so immediately set off on a drive through The Berkshires here in Massachusetts. We parked the car and noticed a tiny farmer’s market set up on the steps of […]
Vinh Chau’s Pho with Rare Flank Steak
Quite a few years back before we were married I had a roommate who came to this boring little city from San Francisco. Needless to say, it must have been a bit of a culture (less) shock for him. He managed to find a fabulous “hole in the wall” sort of place for […]
Patisserie Lenox
We absolutely love the Berkshires. It is one of those places that has something to do in each season. In late November we took a drive up to Lenox and visited Patisserie Lenox for an espresso and a treat. We loved the fact that they were using their iPad as a cash register, the […]
Coffee and cake at the Woodstar Cafe
On a lovely fall day we stopped for coffee and cake at the Woodstar Cafe in Northampton MA. They have a few seats outside which allowed us to enjoy a snack with Maggie, my mom’s Jack Russell. We had a chocolate Guinness cupcake that sounded like an interesting combination and although the […]
Hungry Ghost Bread Northampton
Today we visited a well documented bread shop called Hungry Ghost Bread in Northampton, Massachusetts. We had heard so much about this bread and so nearly seven years after its opening we finally got around to visiting. According to the shop’s web site “hungry ghosts are spirits of insatiable desire that can never be satisfied.” […]