Off The Menu: Holiday grab of news and notes
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
The Miss Florence Diner in Florence is making Christmas season celebrations a bit easier this year.
“Miss Flo” is offer pick-up meals on Christmas Eve day and Christmas morning. Four options are available: spiral glazed ham with au gratin potatoes, a traditional turkey dinner, roast pork, and classic lasagna.
Whole pies at Christmas are a Miss Flo tradition, with eight different varieties available for advance ordering.
The Miss Florence Diner will also be open Christmas morning, serving breakfast only, from 8 a.m. until noon.
Contact the Miss Florence Diner at (413) 584-3137
Northampton’s Bistro Les Gras ends 12-year run
Bistro Les Gras in Northampton Wednesday, December 16, 2020. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Bistro Les Gras in Northampton Wednesday, December 16, 2020. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Modified: 12/16/2020 4:43:53 PM
NORTHAMPTON Farm-to-fork French restaurant Bistro Les Gras, a high-end fixture next door to the Smith College campus, became the latest local business casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic as it announced its closure online Wednesday.
The announcement marked the end of a 12-year run by the downtown dining establishment, which opened during the Great Recession.
Co-owners and married couple Elizabeth Martinez (manager) and Daniel Martinez (chef), bid their “adieu” in a Facebook post and on their website, thanking community members for their patronage at the restaurant over the years.
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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 coul