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Trattoria Rustica - Pittsfield, Massachusetts
This backstreet Italian restaurant starts laying on the atmospherics even before you get through the heavy, wooden, strap-hinged door—charming, especially considering that it is the rear entrance of a commercial building on Pittsfield’s South Street. Inside and down a few steps, the stagecraft continues—exposed brick, dim lighting, white tablecloths over red, a waitress who, while reciting the specials, rolls her r’s impressively. The food at Trattoria Rustica is classic Neapolitan—Puttanesca, all’Arrabbiata, con Vongole, etc.—well executed and expensive. Now, to be fair, even when six worldly people, ranging from a Williams professor to an international banking executive, all agree that a restaurant is “too expensive,” you have to consider the circumstances. None of us was on vacation, nor was this a celebration; rather, a quick get-together before the theatre. And, admittedly, the one person who ordered the kind of entree that tests a kitchen’s meddle—the rack of lamb—declared it superb (he scrupulously offset the extravagance by not having a salad first). Still, everyone felt that, good as it was, $105 per couple (not including tip) for tap water, no bread, salads, pastas, and 1.3 glasses of wine each is molto caro. —Marilyn Bethany
26 McKay Street, 413.499.1192
5 p.m. - closing
Closed Tuesdays.
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Posted by Marilyn Bethany on 10/01/09 at 07:59 AM • Permalink
