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| - I know that people often have phrases that are extremely meaningful to them, but do we really need to name a restaurant after an obscure subtitle from Moby Dick? Is that where we're at now? I get it, the owners wanted to evoke thoughts of the sea even before customers arrive at their restaurant. Yeah, righto! Please stop with the esoteric names and menu notations when your excellent décor, food and service is enough to warrant a visit to your restaurant. I do mean EXCELLENT service! Our waiter was fabulous and couldn't have provided better service if he fed us our meals table side.
The menu is short and sweet, maybe a little too short, but they do almost everything extremely well. (I say almost everything because I tried to order the Best Chicken Sandwich You'll Have Today and they were out of various components needed to make the sandwich. What?) Since I couldn't order the chicken sandwich, I ordered the Eggs Chesapeake with 2 crab cakes, poached eggs, old bay hollandaise, housemade English muffins and farm greens($18). Yummy! One of my lunch partners ordered the same as me along with a side of bacon($8) and my other lunch partner ordered the Steak + Eggs with two fried eggs, wood fired bavette, hearth roasted vegetables and fingerlings, chile hollandaise and chimichurri sauce.($25)
Now let me just say that those prices are just a little steep for lunch in Dahntahn Pittsburgh, but as far as restaurants associated with and placed in hotels, the prices were about par. Additionally, that side of bacon was in a whole nother class by itself. Damn, that bacon was good!
In spite of the lack of ingredients for the chicken sandwich, Or, the Whale is a nice spot to try for the food, ambiance and service.
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