"Wish I could give no stars to this restaurant but google won’t let me do that. Anyways, here it is: we had a disturbing experience at this restaurant — as the only person of color in the restaurant, we were treated aggressively and angrily. This is the first time in my life I have had to walk out of a restaurant because of racist treatment by a staff member. We were very excited to this place which just re-opened a month or two ago. Being new here in Western Massachusetts we were excited to check this beautiful spot by the lake. We were seating in a shade area where my wife (who is visibly pregnant) was feeling chilly because it was windy so we wanted to move to a table where there was some sun. So my wife asked the server who was assigned to us to see if we could switch the table and she said “of course, let me clean that table for you”. As we were moving to the new table there was another server loudly complaining about us to a large group of motorcycle riders at another table. , “people should be sitting where they should be in the first placeOh I said that very loudly.” Before my wife asked our sever about switching to the sunny table, two other people had switched tables on their own without even asking the server. We did ask the server politely and were enthusiastically welcomed to move to a more comfortable spot. However, we were the only people singled out by this other server — and I was the only person of color in the whole restaurant. This wasn’t a good feeling, but we tried to shake it off. However, once we were seated on the new table, the other server came to us and was very aggressive and rude, repeating her complaints. My wife politely said that she had asked the other server and that she had ushered us to this other table. The server told us that they discourage people from switching tables, as if we had not asked, and as if we should have known the rules we were not told. Then, very short, she snapped at us about whether or not we were ready to order more food. We declined to order more than our fries, as it was clear we were not welcome. We left more cash than the bill and tip with the first server who had been kind and walked out. My wife started to cry. As a mixed race couple, we are used to stares and occasional hostility, but this was a level of aggressively making us feel unwelcome that we have rarely had to face. Maybe we have been lucky Apparently the owners have been promoting themselves as an inclusive restaurant in a beautiful spot in the hills in Western Mass. We went enthusiastically, thinking we would be welcome. But that was not our experience maybe inclusive means various kinds of white folks — rich ones, rednecks and of course white biker gangs."
