
Address and Contact Information
Address: 425 Park St, Great Barrington, MA 01230
Phone: (413) 274-5005
Website: https://www.commonorgardenpub.com/
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The food is phenomenal!
Curry fries and smash burgers are outstanding.
On my first visit, excitement & imagination around what my life would be like with such an accessible oasis, I wandered the empty back room, pint of chav favorite carlsberg in hand, took in the pool table, Smith College throw, and the quaint window into the kitchen & tucked next to it trophies photos and memories from a previous lifes dream, that of a soccer player. It adds a layer of Ted Lasso charm to the already soccer obsessed spot.
Inside, Conifer green walls and double green tartan curtains set the stage for a waspy comfortability. Remnants and homages of iterations past remain throughout – the focal wall mural of kids playing in the in the river, a Macano Inn sign also advertising Knickerbocker beer that was no dobut hand painted, and I imagine they refurbed around it, ensconced as it is like a priceless work at the Clark. The wood-inlay of the watertower from it’s brickhouse days at the bar pass also remains. It’s steeped in the kind of generational, institutional history that new bars pay very credentialed people fortunes to try to cultivate.
Keeping the full wrap bar and chalkboards is so choice, it conures images of my first warm lager & a Sheffield United game in a tiny pub in Dore in 2002. I get that same feeling nestling into one of COG’s ample church pews & nest. The TVs are placed well, unobtrusive, and only audible during games. I will say every time I have been in, the playlist has been a pitch perfect- even & unoffensive, nothing thats going to inspire sudden singalongs or fisticuffs but also not the usual sleepy jazz or soft sad indie that makes me want finish the bottle, go home and put on Tom Waits. During the edition session of ths review it was loud, constant phish but fortuately I carry my nosie cancelling headphones everywhere now and wear them as needed with autistic pride.
My one gripe about the furniture, which is often the sacrifice of many a rapidly ballooning opening budget, that if your are sturdy of frame or carrying a few extra lbs, the black high top stools at the tables are a precarious proposition but not unmanageable.
The staff is well cast. The regular bartenders are experienced, calm in the face of high volume or aggravation, and full disclosure, while I do know them both personally for some time in the way the industry folks do, I wouldnt be afraid to say otherwise. Lets ensure all of the staff is well tipped to fend off the sure to arrive poaching offers. I need my Shelly Longs.
Common or Garden is the kind of place that feels steeped in the hyper-localized culture of soccer, and for all the better.
Not just for footballers looking to throw a few back during EPL Saturday mornings, this spot provided me with immediate cozy vibes. It feels like it has been here forever and I hope it stays that way !
Steve