Wheatleigh | T+L 500 2008 | Travel + Leisure

Wheatleigh

1893 Tuscan-style palazzo with museum-quality contemporary art, minutes from Tanglewood.

Score 84.29
Stats 19 rooms; 3 restaurants.
Competitive Edge Gilded Age glamour combined with the laid-back atmosphere of a country-house hotel.
Rooms to Book No. 1A, for its oversize bathroom with a soaking tub.
Don't Miss An olive-oil tasting with chef Jeffrey Thompson.
Cost Doubles from $650.
Contact 11 Hawthorne Road
413/637-0610
www.wheatleigh.com

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“Your base for the mountains: the Wheatleigh, in Lenox, Massachusetts, an Italianate country house with one of New England's best restaurants...” MORE»

—Amy Farley
“Drive Coast to Coast” in Travel + Leisure, Sep 2006

“Rising Berkshires star J. Bryce Whittlesey collaborates with guest pastry chef Bill Yosses of Citarella for a course devoted to all things chocolate. Truffles, molten cakes, and ganache are certainly worth the sugar rush...” MORE»

—Shane Mitchell
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“Determined to prove that 'contemporary country hotel' is not an oxymoron, the men loved the 1893 Italianate cottage enough to also get rid of the ditzy bed hangings and florid china, replacing them with dead-plain rectilinear headboards and dead-white soup plates....” MORE»

—Christopher Petkanas
“The New Berkshires” in Travel + Leisure, Apr 2004