The Bookstore and Get Lit Wine Bar

The Bookstore, a fixture in the Town of Lenox for well over 40 years, was actually born in the neighboring town of Stockbridge, in the living room of a small rented house behind an alley that housed a then little-known café that later came to be known as Alice’s Restaurant.

The date of the move to Lenox is lost to antiquity, but it is safe to assume it happened in the late 1960s or early 1970s. So much of what happened in those days is lost in memory, eh? Yours, mine, ours?

It was (appropriately) on April Fool’s Day in the year of our republic’s bicentennial that the store legally passed from its owner/founder David Silverstein to current owner and sole proprietor Matt Tannenbaum. The anecdotal purchase and sale agreement happened a month or so earlier, the details of which can be found on web sites not on this plane.

One thing is for sure, though, a good time has been had by all since 1966. Ten years was enough for David, but Matt has kept the place alive and thriving for over 40.

Get Lit

The name says it all, doesn’t it?

A book or two, a glass of wine, a summer evening . . . a winter afternoon.. . The possibilities, though not endless, do appear wider than if there was no bar at The Bookstore, yes?

The bar is open whenever the bookstore is, and sure enough the bookstore stays open later some nights when the bar is open as well, especially Friday or Saturday nights.

But if it’s a Monday through Thursday afternoon, say around 2 or 2:30, for instance, and you happen to inquire whether you can get lit, the answer most assuredly is yes you can!

Some restrictions may apply.
But they usually won’t.