Bistro Les Gras in Northampton closing after 12 years as COVID-19 wounds restaurant industry
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
NORTHAMPTON — Bistro Les Gras, the French-style farm-to-table restaurant on West Street, will not reopen this spring after what had been announced as a temporary closure due to COVID-19.
Instead, owners Daniel and Elizabeth Martinez said Wednesday they will not renew their lease. The restaurant is closing after 12 years.
“A lot of thoughts crossed our mind as we came to this decision‚” they wrote on the restaurant’s Facebook page. “We thought of our amazing staff over the years, and how many have become some of our dearest friends. We reminisced about all the families we have had the pleasure to watch grow over the years. We thought of our amazing regulars who have become as much a part of our daily lives as our own families, perhaps even more so. It became easy to see that Bistro Les Gras belongs to all of these people as much as it belongs to us. We could not be more proud of that.”