Driving to the middle of nowhere. Wanting a beer and live music. Wanting a nice comforting, tastes…read morelike grandma's kitchen dinner. Hopes to find a place open late that offers both?: 0% Chance! But then... this place. Packed with cars, looking classy, promising and miraculously granted all my wishes in the most perfect way! And now, we drive to Worthington on purpose just to try what's new in their menu and always leave pleasantly surprised! Atmosphere is great! Bartenders are awesome and the kitchen delivers creative and traditional plates with consistent quality and delicious flavors that will make you want to come back for more. Nice Job! Keep up the good work Liston's!

Excellent service and menu! Large portions prepared perfectly! Spotless clean dining area and nice…read moreoutdoor seating! Had lunch there with a few motorcycle buddies and had a great time! 5 star!!

I have eaten at the Goldenrod and the food is great and clean. Service is fantastic and friendly…read more The atmosphere is friendly and rustic. Can't say enough positive review for this place up in Worthington MA.. You need to stop and enjoy. Thanks for reading.

This is a review of the restaurant only…read more It's time my friends! Another episode of the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly! Let's start with the Good! There's lots of good here. First, anyone willing to risk running a restaurant in a place like Worthington is tops in my book. This is a tough place to be, and not a lot of people here. A very under-served population. The location is quaint, clean, and picturesque. The staff was very nice and friendly. The bar is well-stocked, particularly with what seems to be every flavor of V1 Vodka they make! A very good sign. The menu is small, but that's a Good Thing!! I would rather have 10 choices, all done perfectly, than 100 done poorly. The chicken sandwich was A++. Perfect. The fries were good too. I like mine a little crispier (more on that later), but they were in the ballpark. The roll the sandwich was on was fantastic. Also, my wife and I were very excited for the upcoming Drag Brunch! In Worthington! Get down with your awesome selves! (Alas, the tickets were already sold out!!) OK, enough of the raving, now on to .... The Bad: These folks are clearly still in the "just getting started" phase. The staff is great, but it's clear that they're having some communication issues. Those kinds of issues cost money. If the management gets that under control, they'll survive. That just takes time. The buffalo wings were just meh. A little undercooked so they weren't crispy at all. Not in an unsafe way, but not as cooked as you'd like them, chewy skin. The Blue Cheese dressing tastes like bad Blue Cheese dressing from a food service bucket. The sort of Blue Cheese dressing you'd expect at a truck stop in the middle of Nebraska. Sort of sweet and tangy, like shelf-stable Wishbone. Really disappointing. The wings did seem to be decent quality, just needed longer to cook. The spice level was nice. I'll chalk these up to growing pains. Oh no, here it comes... The Ugly: There is poutine on the menu. Or so they claim. This is the sort of poutine you would get if you *described* poutine to a person who had never seen nor tasted it. Here's that description: Take french fries, put cheese on them, then gravy. That's missing a LOT of key details. Did I mention that I'm Canadian? This poutine is like promising an Italian a nice plate of Spaghetti and Meatballs, then serving them a can of Spaghetti-o's. Sure, it's pasta, and meatballs, and sauce.... The fries were not nearly cooked enough to hold up to cheese and gravy. As a side for a burger, no problem. The fries are the right type and quality, but Poutine fries need to be cooked a little longer so they don't turn to mush. The cheese seemed to be mozzarella, and the cook *broiled* it onto the fries. Broiled cheese? Are you nuts? OK, OK, I'm calming down. This is still salvageable. Wait, what is this flavorless, white... is it ... gravy? Are you sure? It looks and tastes like country gravy that should have bits of ground up sausage and gets served over a biscuit for breakfast. Poutine gravy is brown! BROWN I tells ya! Even vegetarian poutine gravy is brown! Swear to dog, next time I'm in Quebec I'm bringing back an industrial sized tub of St. Hubert gravy mix and donating it to the Goldenrod (You think I'm joking. I am not.) GYAGH! Better yet, next time I'm going to Quebec I'm going to grab the head chef, drive them to the first Casse-crout past the Derby line, and feed them a proper (paper) plate of poutine. OK, deep breaths. Deep breaths. In through your nose, out through your mouth. I accept that (in spite of being only 4 hours drive) finding the perfect Canadian ingredients here in Western Mass is almost impossible, and I will never find perfect Poutine here. I am a poutine snob, and I know this. But Please, please, for the love of dog, Goldenrod, fix this. Fresh cheddar cheese curds need to be at room temp, placed on hot fries, covered in hot brown gravy. You want low moisture cheese, it's *not supposed to melt* or if it does, just barely. If you want to elevate it some, go for it. Add some fresh herbs. Offer to toss in some BBQ short rib or bacon bits. But (in my best Joan Crawford:) NO. WHITE. GRAVY!!!! To the owners/chefs: Google "Poutine" & "Sherbrooke". Look at the pictures. All of them. From every restaurant. Do you see a single broiled cheese curd? Do you see any white gravy? No? OK, now you know. The Wrapup: Alright, I know I practically had a stroke there about the poutine, but here's the end of the story. The Goldenrod is a new restaurant, and it's good. Not great (yet,) but good. Want them to be great? Eat there. Often. Tell the boss what's good and what's bad. Success breeds success. This place has massive potential and needs encouragement. Overall, 4 stars. Tons of potential. Eat there!

Very nice spot conveniently located in town. We were there late afternoon on a weekend. Folks kept…read morecoming in to enjoy a few beers. Brought a nice energy to see older and younger people hanging out. Comfy seating, lots of tables, good list of beers. Very happy we picked this bar purely for the Simpsons reference. (This as not a seedy bar, not in one bit)

My wife and I went here years ago and had a great time. But be warned, unless things have changed…read moreMoe's doesn't serve food. I think they will sell you a bag of chips. On the good side they let you bring in your own food, so grab a pizza down the road bring it in to Moe's and have fun !!

Great place ,,great beer,,,great people!…read more The dark haired bartender lady is very nice. Jared the owner also is a great brewer. The two cats are also very friendly. Worthington is an awesome town! If they don't have a food truck at Sena Listons and The Goldenrod are nearby and the food is good.

Great beer with a fun and interesting bar set up. Jared is a great brewer and if you're lucky you…read moremight get him as your bartender! Worth the trip!

We've just made our first visit to Dulu and the Doctor Sax House, and we are HOOKED! The historic…read moremansion was recently (beautifully!) renovated to create a cozy bar, various dining spaces, and fireplace lounge seating tucked throughout the rambling first floor rooms, plus elegant sleeping quarters located on the upper floors. We enjoyed dinner before an event, then returned afterward for late-evening cocktails next to the fireplace, and we can attest that there is no other space that feels like Dulu in the entire Lenox/Stockbridge/Lee area! The vibe is classic yet modern, intimate, but also a little bit edgy, with a funky eclectic decor and quiet club music playing in the background - a perfect mix of Berkshires elegance plus contemporary urban sophistication! We shared several items for dinner, and felt that all were well-executed and very enjoyable - including an excellent spice-rubbed shrimp appetizer with fresh green s'chug for dipping, a bright shaved Brussels & manchego salad (which would have benefitted from just a pinch more salt), a perfectly-prepared thick hunk of salmon with crispy skin & bitter greens, and an interesting squash gnocchi with sausage and rosemary (which would have benefitted from a final light splash of acid - perhaps a squeeze of lemon or a few drops of champagne vinegar). Cocktails and wine pairings were EXCELLENT - this bar staff really knows what they're doing! Service was kind and efficient, and we were truly made to feel welcome. Prices are definitely at the higher end, but we felt that the quality of the food and beverages we enjoyed, plus the INCREDIBLE Dulu atmosphere, more than justify the cost. Thank you, Dulu - we will definitely be back!

Was not as pleased with this place as I would have liked. Ate at a restaurant with very similar…read moremenje the night before and it was way better in many regards. The atmosphere at dulu is nice if you are a guest or stopping by for a drink. For dinner guests it was underwhelming. Service was nice but didn't seem to match the quality of the prices. The he flavors were good in everything but an element felt missing and nothing was wow. The mushroom board was most disappointing. Branzino was good very well.

The best and sweetest little place in the area! Sitting outside on a summer evening is so lovely…read morewith the lake view.

The food was ok but I would recommend that the manager of this restaurant do some really basic…read moretraining for the staff. That is about the nicest thing I can say. It is in a lovely location and I would go back for that reason alone.

Now under new owner Tammy and Bob Scott and new name. PAPA BOB'S…read moreJust had a function here last night. Good food. Very caring staff. Live music weekly. With indoor and outdoor space. Pool table and horse shoes. An informal drop in for locals, tourists and bikers.

The owners of this establishment have gone the country mile in making it what exists now-The place…read moreto eat in Shelburne Falls. Food is great, and always an emphasis on 'presentation'. Last week my bride & I enjoyed Filet Minon for me & salmon for my wife. Great job on the beef, wife really enjoyed her salmon. Threw the diet out the window with custard pie, but you only live once, and it was worth it. Only took three days to work it off! Crowd is mixed between us locals & the tourists & visitors; wide age range. I think my only complaint is that the wine glasses have much more room for wine in them than is now dispersed. This is the US guys, not them stingy Europeans. Fill 'em up! Otherwise: back again soon.

We ate there for the first time tonight because our long time Shelburne Falls favorite has closed…read more We sat outside on a beautiful evening and got good service. The view was exquisite. The menu is quite ambitious and the cooking lived up to its promise. We were pleased with all our dishes. The draft beer choices were also enticing. I recommend it without reservation.

We were in Shelburne Falls to check out the bridge of flowers and had dinner at the West End Pub…read more We started with the sesame garlic bites which were AMAZING. We couldn't stop going back for another. The main course was a little underwhelming. I got the pasta athene with chicken ($6 extra) which consisted of evoo, sun dried tomatoes, spinach, roasted red peppers, garlic, and olives (and chicken). I don't think that the chicken was worth the extra $6. In general I thought the dish was pretty under seasoned and didn't have a lot of flavor.

This restaurant is super cute and with wonderful views of the Deerfield River, or - when it returns…read more- the Bridge of Flowers. It has a really intimate layout so you feel like you've been tucked into a corner - a corner with a nice view. It had a great booze list - but I was on a solo adventure and needed to drive some more so I settled for a Shirley temple. My one gripe was actually with the Shirley temple. It came in a tall glass that was hard to drink out of without a straw. I'm always happy to not use a straw - but maybe would have been happier if it came in a tumbler - even if it wasn't so festive looking. I got the Athene Pasta dish and it was delicious and came with some really wonderful garlic foccacia. My waitress did a great job. Sometimes people are super weird when I eat alone - but she did great. The Bridge of Flowers is closed this summer for renovation - I think West End Pub was a consolation prize for the people at the table near me. Not a bad consolation prize.

"Thistle and Mirth offers a cocktail experience like no other. With attentive service, cozy…read moreambiance, and expertly crafted cocktails, every sip is a journey of flavor. Raise your glass to an unforgettable evening at Thistle and Mirth."

Great, friendly, cozy, casual place with yummy chashu ramen when it's cold out and rice bowls when…read moreit's warm out. And TRY THE PORK BUNS!!