Open Mid-May Through October: May 11: Mother’s Day brunch (Click here for menu) May 16 – July 6: Serving Friday & Saturday 5-9:30PM, Sunday 10AM-8PM (a la carte brunch 10AM-3PM) July 7 – Sept 7: Closed Tuesdays Sept 8 – Oct 31: Closed Mondays & Tuesdays Jumpin' Jupiter, you made it to Jacks*! Somehow you have managed to take just the right back roads and byways--to make it to this hidden corner of heavenly Housatonic. (Or you know enough to live here...)
How serendipitous that you have arrived at this
johnny-come-lately gem of Housatonic's 'hot' restaurant You are about to witness/taste (and hopefully pay for) some of Jacks food: purposely of the 'enlightened diner- esque' genre, with a full bar. Pretty plain & simple, but wholly wholesome. Maybe the slightest hint of a little flair, but usually understated. We do like dollops. And we cherish mashed potatoes (like our forebear Joan Embree used to make.) And we love local stuff. And Jell-OŽ. Boy do we like Jell-OŽ. In fact, when we get together to talk about the menu, I think we just like talking about Jell-OŽ. And we're really proud of the Pot Roast! The collections along the walls are our own
family celebration of seeking out--and finding just the right The train came from one of our retail curtain "relatives" in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Used to be in the Beane Farm Kitchen there you know. But that's another story... By the way, the old truck is a 1936 Chevy pickup, six cylinders. It ran good a few years ago . . .
As Josh Billings once said, "There ain't no
tonic like the Housatonic." We love Housatonic, and couldn't agree
more. This building (once a hardware store) and this town (once a
flourishing mill town producing woolies for the war effort) are both
emerging. Housatonic from a sleepy recent past, and Jacks from
We at Jacks have taken to referring to ourselves
as a "Footloose Subsidiary of The Red Lion Inn," but we're really
all the same people acting out our food fantasies under more casual
circumstances. We don't stand on ceremony here. Come in. Sit down. Eat. Let
us make you happy. We're glad you made tracks to Jacks! And we can't wait to
see you again! P.S. Go outside. Put your nose up against the building, and check out the jewel-like bits of colored glass some old mason artfully added to the stucco work. Fascinating, isn't it? Just like JACKS, not easily revealed in one visit!
*It really is 'Jacks Grill'-no confounded
apostrophe in 'Jacks,' and no pretentious 'e' in 'Grill.'
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scene. If this is
your first visit, you may be suffering from sort of trepidation, not really
knowing what you have stumbled upon. But it really is safe to go out and
turn your car off. Sit back. Keep your hat on if you want to. And we'll be
right with you. 
thing. You'll
surely find a favorite 'thing' of your own. In time however, a few secrets
about Jacks will no doubt unfold to you... The 'Sports Bar' theme has
probably already gone over your head! Look closely. That's Jack's old
leather football helmet (hold your comments.) And behind the stairs--on your
way to the ahem, 'loo--those are original fashion drawings by none other
than Jane, of curtain fame. ("Jacks" has prompted equal-time
rumblings about opening another restaurant named "Janes", and Jack
to rumble, "Why do we need another restaurant!?"
relative
culinary obscurity (and regular obscurity). We have a lot in common, and we
both have pluck. And moxy. 
