Our story lives on in the Berkshires.
Our Story
Tasting Counter launched in 2015 as a groundbreaking 20-seat fine dining experience inside a 1,000 sq/ft industrial space in Somerville, Massachusetts. Built around an open kitchen and counter-service format, our mission was to reimagine fine dining for a new generation of diners — offering a more intimate, transparent, and globally inspired culinary journey.
From the beginning, Tasting Counter challenged expectations of what fine dining could be. Within three months of opening, we were named Boston Magazine’s #1 Best New Restaurant and featured on the cover of their annual restaurant issue. That same year, The Boston Globe published a three-star review, writing that the restaurant “was already well on its way to perfect” and that “the future could look a lot like Tasting Counter,” while also naming us Best New Restaurant in their annual end-of-year recap.
Over the course of eight years, we continued to evolve, earning six Best of Boston awards — from Best Fine Dining Restaurant to Best Tasting Menu, as well as Best Meal Kit for our innovative at-home experience, TC@Home — all while staying true to our mission of creating hospitality that’s personal, sustainable, and deeply connected to place.
In a 2025 feature anticipating Boston’s first Michelin Guide, The Boston Globe recognized Tasting Counter as part of the city’s defining era of fine dining — a restaurant that helped shape the culinary landscape and set a standard of excellence in the region.
Our Next Chapter: Tasting Counter Berkshires
Regenerative culture, seasonal cuisine, and transformative hospitality in the heart of Western Massachusetts.
Our next chapter is taking root in Southern Berkshire County, where we’re creating a destination that unites locavore cuisine, regenerative kitchen culture, and transformative hospitality — all in one immersive experience.
Set in the heart of Western Massachusetts, the Berkshires offer an ideal setting: a renowned food and arts hub just over two hours from both New York City and Boston, surrounded by natural beauty that shifts with each season — from vibrant fall foliage and snow-covered hills to blooming spring flowers and lush summer farmland.
At the center of the experience will be a 48-seat restaurant within an architecturally innovative greenhouse — a glowing, glass-enclosed space that blurs the boundaries between kitchen, nature, and guest. Surrounded by forest, pasture, and field, the dining space invites connection to the seasons and the land beyond the glass. Guests will gather at an intimate counter, where a multi-course tasting menu unfolds in real time — prepared and presented by chefs just steps away. Each dish will carry a sense of place, with ingredients sourced from the surrounding ecosystem and crafted with intention, creativity, and care.
Dining at Tasting Counter Berkshires will be more than a meal: it will be a front-row seat to the craft of cooking — a seasonal journey deeply connected to food, place, and community.
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Next Chapter
We are developing the next home of Tasting Counter as a greenhouse-based, farm-integrated evolution of what we began in Somerville in 2015.
This next chapter is designed to be more than a restaurant. It is a regenerative hospitality project rooted in land, seasonality, and craft. We will build a more whole ecosystem between guests, chefs, farmers, and the earth: a greenhouse restaurant surrounded by gardens, orchards, farm systems, and the seasons. We are searching carefully for land in Southern Berkshire County or nearby that can hold this full vision. Your support helps make that possible.
Interested in Contributing?
We are in the early stages of building a Founding Partner group to support the foundational phase of Tasting Counter as we continue the land search, advance design and planning, and prepare for the next stage of financing and development. Because this is a private capital opportunity, specific materials, terms, and next steps are shared directly after an introductory conversation and only where appropriate. If the project resonates with you and you would like to learn more, we would be glad to connect privately.
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We also know that many people who care deeply about Tasting Counter may want to follow the project and support it in a smaller way when the time is right. As the next phase takes shape, we will share updates through our mailing list (join below), including future opportunities to stay connected to the project.
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