This "museum cafe" is quietly operation at a whole different level. The salads are lush and tasty…read more My Cobb Salad was large complete with all the goodies. My wife's BLT was the reference standard for all BLTs. Both dishes had all the attention to detail I would expect from a fine restaurant

Good ice cream, hit or miss food, seething hostility from the service…read more This place is convenient to Mass MoCA, tucked in by the main entrance to the museum building, just past the gift shop. Some signage would have helped, because we had trouble locating it on our first visit. The place can get backed up, especially when timed events are finishing up. Service is not slow when there are few people, but the kitchen seems to get backed up after a line forms. I had the black bean burrito, which was pretty tasty with cholula, and my daughter had a grilled cheese. The caesar salad my wife had was not so great, mostly due to the rock hard slabs of cold chicken breast. So, the food seems hit or miss. We really enjoyed the ice cream, house made with good flavors and served slightly soft. The service was deplorable, though it may have just been our experience with one server. The young lady taking our order was extremely rude and seemed very put upon having to take our simple, friendly order. She even disappeared mid-order to go stand idle somewhere else and it was unclear if she was coming back until I called out to her to which she snapped "I'm listening!" but it certainly wasn't clear that she was listening. I will always look past mediocre service and bad days - the service industry is tough - but the outright hostility is unacceptable in any social setting. Management should definitely be on top of this and take more care on who is placed in customer facing roles.

Andrew found the Norad Cafe for us and I am glad he did. At first we thought this was a Cold War…read morerelic but on looking in detail we see that the Norad couple here is an old mill that today houses the cafe, a record store, a yarn maker and more! This is worth a quick stop just to take a look at some history. The cafe is just inside the main door. It is glassed in so you go in and order at the counter. The breakfast menu has many of the breakfast things on it that you might want and is reasonably priced. I ordered the breakfast sandwich with tots, Andrew had a breakfast burrito, and I don't remember what Jim had. I though my breakfast sandwich was excellent. It was simple with an English muffin, sausage patty, fried egg, and a slice of white American cheese. I don't know why American cheese color is regional, but it is, and that is what I expect here. Anyway, this was a simple yet delicious sandwich. The tots were ok but they were under a heat lamp for a while. Andrew enjoyed his burrito. The coffee was very good too. I recommend stopping here for breakfast, maybe lunch too.

Great sandwich at a decent price. Had a pastrami Reuben and it was delicious. The other folks I was…read morewith were all happy with their choices.

**DISCLOSURE STATEMENT** I find aspects of writing this…read morereview difficult due to being an Amherst College alum and, therefore, eschewing, forever, all things "Williamstown." You have been informed. :) I have passed The Store at Five Corners to attend my sons' sporting events for years. Today I broke down and tried it for lunch en route to a track meet. I cannot tell you how happy I am to have visited, and how disappointed I am to have wasted a decade not frequenting this place. It's a Normal Rockwell-esq, quaint and rustic colonial country store. The staff was simply outstanding. Local, authentic, attentive, personable yet professional and added to my experience (I wish I had gotten their names). They have delicious looking treats and baked goods, an array of interesting dry goods and unique drinks in a cold case - but the main focus is their breakfast and lunch sandwich, salad, and coffee menu. The list of offerings does not go on for days. It's efficient, and clearly allows them to be good at 12 things - rather than meh at 30. I ordered possibly the greatest plate of food I've ever had in Berkshire County with the white miso hummus and pickled vegetable salad. WOW. It was tasty, well proportioned and conceived, and balanced well beyond my expectations. I did add chicken at the suggestion of the staff - and even the chicken was additive. Perfectly cooked (I suspect wonderfully sous vide), tender, all natural, and tasty. I enjoyed it so much that as soon as my first plate was cleared (yes, you heard that correctly), I ordered a second!!! And, for the record, it was not due to a skimpy portion. It was due to how much I enjoyed my lunch. It's menued at $15 before chicken addition - call it $21 all in with protein and tax. So so worth it. I literally cannot wait to find an excuse to come back to *GULP* Williamstown. I believe our spring sports schedule has us back relatively soon. The staff made me promise to try the falafel next time. I certainly will (very likely with another one of these as well). Fantastic.

A lovely gift shop that also serves breakfast and lunch. They offer grocery items, beer, and wine,…read morealong with art for sale and live music. The space is beautifully decorated, and the service was friendly. It has a great vibe -- hip, artsy, and quaint.

I love it here! The…read moresandwiches are unlike anything I've ever had. The Happy Chick is a popular favorite, but I really like the Ryker, and the Sawyer the best! Everything always tastes fresh, and the employees are always so nice. My favorite part is the wide variety of homebaked goods that are restocked every day! I go for a slice of pumpkin bread as often as I can! The brownies and big beautiful cupcakes are also very popular. The market also stocks a range of items you would find at a convenience store, such as snacks and beverages, or shampoo if you need it. My only complaint is that there is no telling how long it will take to make your food. Sometimes you can be in and out within a few minutes, but other times it could take me half an hour to make my sandwich, even if the restaurant doesnt appear to be busy. So if you are getting your food to go, call ahead if you can!

Genuinely the most pretentious establishment I have ever step foot in. Get ready for NYC prices…read moremultipled by not just slow, but inattentive service. Tries to justify prices by using local products- well, it doesn't account for the sub-mediocre quality. No matter what I buy (i.e. a bottled drink and coffee cake) the total price blows my mind. Don't be fooled by lack of pictures; I've unfortunately been here too many a time as a Williams student. So happy to never have to come here again. Do better.

Love this cafe. Excellent pastries, including their pumpkin muffin and pumpkin spice cookie. Great…read moreapple cider as well. Friendly service and cute little cafe with ample seating, esp towards the back.

On a Sunday morning, online ordering was turned off and they wouldn't take an order over the phone,…read moreso we ordered in store. It was slow but worth the wait. The breakfast burritos and sandwiches were amazing. The sauce seems to be the magic. The drip coffee was good too.

This is the cafe associated with the Clark art museum and institute…read more We had a wonderful late lunch here, of the beet salad and a veggie pizza. The pizza is on a filo dough crust. Crisp and delicious. The salad had both red and golden beets and a spicy balsamic dressing. My partner asked if she could get a small side of chicken, and was given some by the wonderful staff, who wouldn't even hear of charging her for it. (Your mileage may vary.) You order at the counter and they bring your food to your table. They have a specialized kids menu, as well. I'll happily return each time I visit the Clark.

Below average, below ground museum café. I could blame the architects of the new unit, who stuck…read morethis downstairs in the back with a kind of soulless seating floor and a very awkward cafeteria-style system. But the food direction is also odd, with an order-with-numbers system where you have to wait for it if you're going outside to eat (which requires schlepping your food up some massive stairs and around two turns just to get to the outside area) but for which they'll deliver if you're in the dismal downstairs. It's a huge missed opportunity; the largely empty (perhaps to keep it aesthetically pleasing) spot for the bookstore/gift shop, obviously positioned on the first floor to get more traffic, is adjacent to the outside seating area and would have been a far better choice for the café. The counter service was a strange mix of hovering and inattentive. As for the food, it's a theoretically nice set of high-end salads with no hot options (the hot stuff we ordered was just tepid), but is thrown together, given ingredients and pricing. The salmon-spinach salad, for example, was just baby spinach with sort of indifferent slices of salmon (not chopped for better coverage for flavor) tucked at random inside; the caesar salad was about as plain as you could imagine, and the special "Buddha Bowl", which a tasty original, was a pretty small portion for double digit pricing. It's adequate but it's not the kind of café to make you say "oh, let's meet for lunch at the Clark!", and without good inside seating that takes advantage of the beautiful view, adjacent to that view, it's just a quick refueling stop.

In Bennington randomly for a doctor's appointment with my son. Reached for Yelp to guide us for a…read morebrunch-time sandwich - this led us here. Outside looked like a furniture/nicknack store. Typical "I love VT" t shirts and stuffies in the window, $400 syrup, and artsy cards and candles etc. Making our way to the back was a small nook of seats and tables and a breakfast/sandwich/bagel menu. To say we were skeptical was an understatement. My son ordered a Southwestern steak and egg sandwich on a rainbow bagel. I had a dill pickle chicken salad sandwich on an everything bagel. Add in a coffee, a hot chocolate, two cans of Diet Coke (and a small cheesecake round for my son) and we were all set. Menu was way more reasonably priced than we expected. Average bagel sandwich (which they fill amply) was roughly $10. All of the fillings were very good. Well seasoned. Creative. Again, exceeded our initial expectations. Even the bagels were surprisingly good. Please note I grew up in NJ so a bagel is essentially unattainable to me north of the Tappanzee Bridge. I was expecting "airport quality," however, it was not half bad. Chewy and tasty for the area. Service left me with two very distinct feelings. 1) the people were AWESOME. Friendly, attentive, seemingly happy to be at work (a rarity). But... 2) there were 6 total customers in the store (some simply reading books) and yet it took 16 minutes for our coffee and hot chocolate and roughly 30 for the sandwiches. Was so weird to experience the quiet of the store - yet the ticket time and wait of a bustling morning at a deli. Oh well. Was a pleasant place to be. Will likely find a different place next week following our upcoming appointment. But was not mad at the experience.

Stopped here for breakfast to go. got the bagel with lox and caesar salad wrap both were good. the…read morebagel was chewy has decent amount of lox. The staff were nice. The place was big. Merchandise in front and the cafe in the back. I do recommend this place. Sorry i forgot to take pictures.

The best coffee shop in the US!…read more Last year I got here twice, as I was 'passing by' as I made my way back home to NY from Rhode Island during Thanksgiving. A lovely bonus! This trip, I bought a five pound bag of coffee to keep me caffeinated until my next trip to the Berkshires.

Excellent coffee, craft, and atmosphere. A big recommend from me…read more A small café, which lives just across the street from a charming barn full of books, is gorgeously lit and carefully furnished. Their coffee roasts are varied and exceptionally high quality. I stocked up on several bags of beans on my recent trip. And the drinks they make they make with craft and obvious care. Shout out to Camry for the memorable counter service, as well. When we're in the area, we drive out of our way to visit this Berkshire gem.

Absolutely amazing. Great food, great service . we got steak tips pizza and Greek salad... the…read morepizza was like a gourmet experience.. the steak melts in your mouth and is full of flavor. The Greek salad was amazing. Delicious feta cheese and outstanding dressing. Topped it all off with great atmosphere eating at Berkshire Mantiques .... and a cup of iced Carmel coffee for the trip home and a cinnamon bun for breakfast the next day.

No one was there to answer the drive thru. No one was at the window of the booth itself. No sign. I…read morecan not give that place a proper grade since I never received my coffee.

Excellent! They know how to cook a great breakfast. Also, super nice people. great service.read more

Just okay. Steak was grey looking and lacked flavor. Was expecting the home fries to be homemade…read morebut tasted frozen. Only thing really going for them was the French toast that looked and tasted home-made. Service and waitress were nice, but personally wouldn't go back. Also to mention it's a CASH ONLY place. There is an ATM inside but I don't think there was any warning beforehand.