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| - Just awful.
First of all, I had a terrible-tasting hamburger here. Do you know how hard it is to make a hamburger taste bad? Making them exceptional is an art, sure, but use any kind of decent beef and it'll taste good. That means they're using sub-standard beef and trying to mask it with fancy dressings.
Their cocktails are wildly overrated. Oh, so there's smoke in it? Cool - if it didn't just drift away instantly. Their draft list is impressive, but the place is so packed and loud that you can't enjoy it. The design is nonexistent, and whatever cool the brick walls and edison lightbulbs contribute is obliterated by the gigantic TVs covering every conceivable surface. Another instance of a sports bar masquerading as a gastropub, only with terrible food.
I also know it's not really fair to judge a restaurant by its clientele, but the day that Industry opened, the tenor of that stretch of Butler street changed. Now on Fridays & Saturdays it feels like the South Side, and not in a good way, with loud drunken arguments and dudes arguing over parking spots.
I will say that the staff has always been very pleasant, so good for them. But this place is the worst, and it makes me fear for the future of Lawrenceville (and Pittsburgh) when this is the kind of restaurant that succeeds here.
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