North Park Lounge is close to home for us, so its always a good option for a dinner out when we dont want to drive outside the neighborhood.
At this North Hills location there is often a fairly long wait on weekends, but of course you can grab a drink from the bar while you wait -which makes the wait not so bad. I have never had unfriendly or bad service here and the food is always solid, although it is also fairly average. However, I have never had anything come out cold or not the way I wanted it. Their french onion soup is AMAZING and the lounge fried and burgers are really good - juicy, hot and never dry. They are always a winner.
Other menu items like their salads and other non-burger sandwiches are just OK and slightly underwhelming...Ive had the grilled chicken salad with the fries and the buffalo chicken salad- they are just average for me - Its usually just a lot of lettuce with few toppings (chicken included) - I like a lot of "stuff" in my salads and if I am eating a large dinner salad out, I want it to have a good lettuce to "stuff" ratio, which these often don't. But this is just a personal preference.
I'm not from the North Hills, nor am I from Pittsburgh originally. I find that those who grew up in the area are pretty loyal to this place and it almost has a cult-like following for them. As an outsider, its just a pretty average neighborhood place to get a burger and a beer. Still wont stop us from heading back for dinner in the area, or if the mood strikes for a crock of french onion soup close to home.