List of area restaurants

A complete list of off-campus restaurants near UMass Amherst in Amherst, Hadley, Northampton and nearby areas. If you are looking for food on campus, see list of on-campus dining areas. If you are looking for restaurants that deliver, you may be interested in the list of restaurants that deliver. If your favorite restaurant does not deliver, try Delivery Express.

[edit] Off-campus dining

You can find just about any kind of food you want in area surrounding UMass Amherst.

[edit] Amherst

• Amherst Brewing Company, 24-36 N. Pleasant. Pub Food and beer made on-site.
• Amherst Chinese Food, 62 Main Street. Family-style Chinese, with extensive vegetable specials from the owner's farm.
• Andiamo, 485 West Street (route 116 about two miles south of the center). Panini and other Italian fare.
• Antonio's Pizza, 31 N. Pleasant. Pizza by the slice, thought by many to be the best pizza in the Valley. Open late. A "McDonald's Express" opened next to it some years back and soon closed. According to Valley legend this is the only occasion on which a McDonald's has closed due to lack of business.
• Bertucci's, 51 E. Pleasant. Decent chain Italian. For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing that they like.
• Bistro 63 at the Monkey Bar 63 N. Pleasant. Bar and grill with Cajun/Mediterranean items.
• Black Sheep, 79 Main Street. Excellent NY-style deli, bakery, and cafe.
• Bruno's Pizza, 363 Main Street. Late-night delivery of pizza, pasta, subs and calzones.
• Bueno y Sano, 46 Main Street. Access is off an alley connecting Main to the parking garage. Burritos: Large, of high quality, and moderately priced.
• Chez Albert, 27 S. Pleasant. Ambitious, high-end French featuring local ingredients. Wed-Sun, dinners only.
• Fresh Side, 61 Main Street. Tea house with tea rolls, rice and noodle dishes.
• Henion Bakery, 174 N. Pleasant. Meet for coffee and freshly baked goodies, using healthy ingredients. Delivery available for special occasions.
• Judie's, 51 N. Pleasant. "Creative American", good salads, legendary "popovers".
• La Piazza, 30 Boltwood Walk (off the parking garage). Classic Italian with a creative twist when you dine at the restaurant, and the best combo of food for takeout and delivery! Free delivery until 3am - Pizza, subs, salads, and more!
• La Veracruzana, 63 S. Pleasant. Small funky Mexican joint.
• Lone Wolf, 63 Main Street. Primarily breakfast and lunch, dinner some nights, southwestern emphasis but with traditional NYC breakfast items. I haven't (3/05) tried the new dinner menu yet.
• The Loose Goose Cafe, 1 E. Pleasant. Nice cafe and sandwich shop. On Friday nights they have jazz concerts.
• Lord Jeffery Inn, 30 Boltwood Ave., on the Common. The Windowed Hearth restaurant is high-end traditional/American, Elijah Boltwood's Tavern is good tavern food with some German items.
• Panda East, 103 N. Pleasant (back from the street behind Bart's Ice Cream). Moderately priced, banquet-style Chinese food and sushi, excellent service.
• Paradise of India, 87 Main Street. Best Indian in town, though see Northampton for better.
• Pasta e Basta, 26 Main Street. Inexpensive Italian trattoria-style food. Table service available in new upstairs rooms.
• Pinocchio's. Pizza, Calzones etc. The takeout operation of La Cucina di Pinocchio, see above. Also closed temporarily due to fire.
• Primos- A pizza shop. less trendy than Antonio's, sells 1$ slices of pizza from 10-11:00 PM
• Souper Bowl, 96 North Pleasant Street. Serves soup and bubble tea.
• Sugar Jones Cookies. Fresh Baked Cookies with milk and Ice Cream. Deliver 6pm-12am
• The Pub, 15 East Pleasant. Burgers, light Mexican, salads, etc.
• Thai Corner, 31 Boltwood Walk (reachable from the parking garage or through an alley next to Antonio's at 31 N. Pleasant). Affordable home-style Thai.
• Wings, aka The Hangar. 55 University drive. Chicken, chicken, chicken.
• the sub&pizza33 e.pleasant st.pizza subs salads calzones wraps,pasta.dine-in or have it delivered 549-0999

[edit] North Amherst

• Bub's Barbeque, Route 116 Sunderland (about four miles north). Southern roadhouse cuisine. Good jukebox.
• Goten of Japan, Route 116 Sunderland (near Sunderland center, about seven miles north). Cook-at-your-table Japanese steak house.
• House of Teriyaki, 1177 N. Pleasant (about a mile north). Sushi, Japanese and Korean specialties. Closed on Sundays.
• Sienna, 68 Elm, S. Deerfield (about ten miles north). High-end "diverse fare with French, Thai, and Southwestern influences". Small, reservations recommended. Dinner only.

[edit] Hadley

• Carmelina's, 96 Russell Street. High-end Italian, seafood emphasis. Open til 2:00 a.m. Friday, Saturday with piattini menu. Closed Mondays.
• Flayvors of Cook Farm, 129 South Maple, about two miles south of the malls. Food is basic grill stuff only -- the main attraction is real ice cream made from real milk from real (on-site) cows.
• Gohyang Korean Restaurant, 111 Russell Street. Funky little Korean place, between the owners' grocery and their "singing rooms". The sign has two large Korean characters and "Korean Restaurant" in Roman alphabet. Previous satisfied customers have signed their names on the walls in virtually every writing system known to humankind.

[edit] Northampton

• Caminito Argentinean Restaurant, 7 Old South Street. What it says, one of the world's great carnivorous cuisines.
• Cha Cha Cha, 134 Main Street. A Mexican grill in an old bank building. Thai Chicken Burrito is recommended.
• Circa, 57 Center Street. Many consider it the best creative cuisine in the Valley.
• Del Raye Bar and Grille, 1 Bridge Street (route 9). Very high-end traditional.
• Eastside Grill, 19 Strong Street. Excellent Cajun.
• Fitzwilly's, 23 Main Street. Excellent all around dining. Great prices.
• Green Street Cafe, 62 Green Street. High-end French.
• Herrell's Ice Cream, 8 Old South Street. Serves only desserts but included for historical reasons. Steve Herrell founded the legendary Steve's Ice Cream in Cambridge in the 1970's, then moved out here after selling his first name to a conglomerate. Part of Thorne's Marketplace.
• India House, 45 State Street. Generally considered the best Indian in the Valley. Real tandoori oven.
• Lhasa Cafe, 159 Main Street. This restaurant serves Tibetan cuisine.
• Marketplace Cafe, 150 Main Street. Main hallway of Thornes. Soups and sandwiches. Espresso. Home-made cookies.
• Mulino's, 41 Strong Street. High-end trattoria food.
• Northampton Brewery, 11 Brewster Ct. Moderately-priced bar and restaurant with good food and a great atomsphere.
• Paradiso Pizzeria, 12 Crafts Avenue. Wood-oven pizza, other Italian things.
• Paul and Elizabeth's, 150 Main Street. Inside Thorne's, Northampton's downtown shopping mall which is worth a visit in itself. Fish and vegetarian.
• Spoleto, 50 Main Street. High-end Italian.
• Thai Garden, 2 Bridge Street. Unpretentious but excellent Thai.

[edit] External links and reviews

• David Mix-Barrington's local restaurant list
• Valley Advocate's dining reviews and index
• Western Mass Restaurant Reviews Honest Reviews of Local Eateries in Western MA, Constantly growing so check back often.