Alex Cafe

I was waiting for family in the arcade by this restaurant, and suffering greatly from a leg injury which got aggravated on the way to the atrium to meet the family member. There was a line of completely empty tables in the atrium that I discovered later belonged to this café. I sat down at one chair — which was an extra chair — given there were no other patrons at the tables.
An employee came out about 15 seconds after I sat down and started yelling at me the chairs and tables were for customers only. I mentioned my knee, which was wrapped up, and offered to buy something, but the employee kept ranting about how they were for customers only.
I’m sympathetic to the fact there are three more popular restaurants in the area and the spillover waiting for them may attract people to their tables. But there’s a certain circular logic to saying ‘customers only’ and then assuming a person sitting at their tables isn’t a customer.

The best place in the Berkshires for a fantastic Gyro .
Don’t miss their great pastries and wonderful service
Indoor — outdoor dining too
A real gem at reasonable prices

Oh dear. We stopped by this little tiny café (only 2 or 3 cramped tables) in downtown Great Barrington, in hopes of a nice quick bite. On the menu are sandwiches, wraps, panini, and gyros. We’re not big fans of Greek food in general, but these seemed like nice, safe sandwiches. We ordered three: A panini with mozzarella, chicken and sundried tomatoes; a southwest wrap with chicken, monty jack, salsa, and avocado; and a chicken caesar wrap. Not one of these turned out to be even remotely edible.
The culprit seemed to be the chicken — overdone and salty beyond belief. I usually can’t justify wasting food, but in this case there was just no way. The lettuce in the caesar wrap was absolutely drenched in salty dressing, and the panino consisted of giant globs of congealed cheese, a few sundried tomatoes, and the offensive chicken sandwiched inside a plain pita (not that the menu advertised that the panini were actually grilled pita sandwiches). We were seriously hungry, so we tried to make the best of it by opening up all the sandwiches and picking at the edible bits (the avocado, the tomatoes, the pita — once the cheese was scraped off — and a little of the lettuce).
We did not try any of the desserts (which did look tempting), and maybe they did good things with gyros, but based on our sandwiches (ALL THREE of which were bad!), I would say keep walking to one of the many other options downtown.