Alta Restaurant & Wine Bar

This place was a major disappointment. Had a family dinner there before a Tanglewood concert.

Drinks: not good--visibly not shaken and not tasty either.

Food: The lobster cocktail just tasted like mayo, and the soup didn't taste like anything. The lamb meatballs was the one item anyone enjoyed all night--flavorful, and well paired with dates and a salad. For entrees, my dad had the cod--overcooked. My mom and I had the scallops--overcooked and rubbery, and we were both crunching on some kind of sand or dirt that was in them. My brother had the chicken--really dry and the chickpea flour sticks that accompanied it were disgusting and totally unseasoned (weirdly, our waitress had raved about them). My other brother had the salmon, which he said was flavorless. The only positive other than the meatballs was the complimentary bread--hot, tasty, and bread service was quick.

Service: I work as a server, and my brother and dad used to work as waiters too, so we're usually a pretty easygoing bunch. But not only did all our food take forever to come out; our server was unapologetic, salty, and didn't seem to care how our experience went. She had good menu knowledge and did her requisite table "touches" (checking back 5 min after we got dishes to ask how they were) but didn't really seem to care what answer we gave her. She seemed pissed the whole time.. Manager stopped by once to tell us our food would be out soon but also seemed unapologetic about how long everything was talking. I'm not demanding, and am usually the apologist for servers whenever i go out. Even just one "I'm sorry about this" would have gone a long way to change my impression, but these people just didn't seem to care.

To top it all off, it's way overpriced, especially considering the quality of what you get. Sure, we tipped well, because we're servers ourselves--but that was the only reason we tipped well. My parents used to really like this place, but I don't think they'll be back.

We had a lovely lunch on the covered porch of this pretty wine bar restaurant.  There was a large selection of reasonably priced wines by the glass.  Service was excellent and everyone was friendly.  There was a nice selection of salads, panini s, wraps and entrees for lunch.  There were even lunch specials.  I had a tomato and caramelized onion torte with arugula salad and a glass or Pinot Grigio from
Sonoma ($7!).  My husband had a ham, Brie and apple wrap with sweet potato and regular fries.  He had a Riesling from Germany.  Everything was wonderful.  If we are ever in the area again, we will not hesitate to return.

After a week of eating below average restaurants in Pittsfield,  I came here as one of my last nights.  I don't know if my expectations had been killed by my other bad experiences,  but this place rocked!
The duck was cooked perfectly and the dessert cheesecake was not too sweet, so perfect.  
This was the best meal I had in the Berkshires!