
The restaurant’s a household affair with relations producing up the team. Over, chef Ronald Gomez listens to just one of the crew.


PITTSFIELD, Mass. — An Italian eatery with Chilean flare has opened in the previous Elizabeth’s Cafe on East Road.


Megan and Ronald Gomez have a shared passion for food items and have generally dreamed of proudly owning their possess cafe. That desire arrived to fruition with the opening of Sibaritas on Friday.


“We have managed areas jointly and we have usually manufactured it work, we’ve usually labored so tough, it can be just the way we are, we have always set a person hundred p.c into all the things,” Megan Gomez explained. “When we have this passion, there is no way that this can are unsuccessful.”
Sibaritas — a Spanish phrase that refers to a human being who appreciates good foods — will make nearly every little thing in dwelling. The menu contains fresh pasta, flatbreads, salads, breakfast pastries, and coffee.
The malt liquor license for beer and wine is remaining transferred from Elizabeth’s and, upon its transfer, genuine Chilean and Italian wines together with artisanal beers will be readily available.
The most common menu product, Gomez explained, is a flatbread pizza with cheese, grilled rooster, bacon, crimson onion, avocado, and homemade healthier dressing.
Presently, Sibaritas is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven times a week with an hour of closure in the mid-working day. Breakfast and lunch are casual counter services when evening meal is sit-down desk services.
“We may perhaps transform that structure mainly because a great deal of individuals in the place are hunting for sit-down breakfast and lunch,” Gomez said. “But I type of like the cafe design, to have that tranquility in the early morning and the seriousness at night time wherever you can go down and take it easy and love a glass of wine and it really is not that rapidly speed.”
Councilor at Substantial Peter White attended the soft opening on Friday and, subsequent his Facebook article raving about the espresso and banana chip muffins, she mentioned they had a line out the door.


Together, the duo has 30 decades of expertise in the industry. Ronald operates the kitchen as the chef and Megan operates the entrance-of-home functions. He was born in Ecuador and moved at the age of 16 to Chile, where he learned to cook dinner.
“Honestly we make the ideal pair and I am not just expressing that since he’s my husband,” Gomez stated. “If there is some thing that I really don’t know, he knows it, if there is some thing he can’t do, I have got it.”
Sibaritas is a relatives operation, as the owners’ kinfolk and kids make up the payroll.
Gomez is a native of Pittsfield but grew up in Hillsdale, N.Y. She labored in Good Barrington for lots of many years and generally pictured her eatery’s site in the Southern Berkshires but saw probable in the East Avenue location right after viewing it for the next time.
“To have this opportunity to bring new everyday living into a thing that was functioning for 33 decades was terrifying, but a challenge that we had been prepared to settle for,” she said.
With the enable of Gomez’s father, the couple renovated the setting up to suit their design and style in 2 1/2 months, normally operating from early morning to late night. Elizabeth’s aqua blue and white shade scheme was adjusted to neutral green, black, and white, and the primary tables and chairs ended up retrofitted to match the sleek new exterior.
“To have this, it really is like living the aspiration,” Gomez mentioned. “The group is so supportive, I by no means imagined that it would be like this.”

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