Licensing Board to Hear Updates on Inactive Pittsfield Eateries
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — What is going on with Vong's?
The Licensing Board has requested updates on liquor licenses for a couple of inactive restaurants.
On the agenda for Monday's meeting was an update for Vong's Thai Restaurant, which has been closed since a fire last year. The Seymour Street eatery had operated for almost 10 years before the fire and holds a seven-day, annual, all-alcohol license.
A notice of the meeting was sent through certified mail, and Vong's owners did not appear; the board hopes to hear from them at the November meeting.
"I know they've had a fire there, because that's what we've been told," Chairman Thomas Campoli said.
He suggested making another effort to get the restaurant operators in for an update.
In October 2025, owners posted on Facebook that Vong's experienced a fire and would be closed until further notice. The following month, they posted that recovery work is underway.
"We're doing everything we can to reopen as soon as possible," the post reads.
In November, the board also expects to hear a status update on the liquor license from Old Man Jeff's, located on Peck's Road.
The board approved a transfer of the seven-day all-alcohol license from Portsmitt's Lakeway Restaurant to Old Man Jeff's in 2022, and, according to the business' social media, it closed last year.
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