I hadn't been here since shortly after they opened. I came in to try a couple cookies and wasn't overly impressed so I hadn't been back. I was short on lunch options today because the food around here is so uninspired and decided to give them a try.
It's a really nice looking place with a good lunch menu. The service was very good and I thought the prices were fine for hand made quality product. Here's the thing, they don't know much about food and the execution is very bad. Pretty typical of the Pittsburgh area. I had the California Club. Chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, cheese and guacamole on some sort of white bread pretending to be focaccia? The quality of ingredients was excellent. The chicken was so dry and rubbery I literally couldn't chew it. It was unseasoned and the whole sandwich was dry and tasteless. I took the chicken off and tried some salt and pepper. The wrong kind of salt and the cheap kind of pepper really couldn't help this sandwich in any event. I didn't catch the pesto, there was supposed to be pesto. Would have helped. The bread was really terrible. Like Wonder Bread. Hopeless. Marinate your chicken and make it a little more tender. Cook it carefully until it is just barely underdone, it will continue to cook after you pull it. Season it before you cook it or marinate it like I said. Just really poor food knowledge. Great ideas but no one to pull them off.