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| - I could honestly review this place with a single word: underwhelmed. But, to be fair, I'll tell you why I feel that way.
We came here for 'brunch.' I use the term loosely, because although it was served on a Sunday morning, half of the elements that make brunch 'brunch' and not just 'breakfast' were absent (i.e. there was not a single lunch item available). This, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. We wouldn't have said, 'We're not going there!' if they had advertised it as breakfast, but we would have been more prepared for the short, single-page menu they offered.
The good: our server refilled our coffee and water as soon as they got low. The service was prompt. There was a TV playing a show about dogs! The pancakes were thin and very tasty.
The bad: Although they have a hostess stand at the front, there was no one standing there, and we were called to from across the bar (the far end of the bar, so across the room) to follow one of the servers, but the layout made it feel like we had somehow gone the wrong way around the bar. It was a little bit of an odd start. Then, we sat down and checked in on Yelp, and a check-in offer for free donut holes popped up. I showed our server when he came by, and he read the offer, which said 'in July' (we were there in December and the offer still popped up), so he said, "I don't know what that is, but it says July, you'll have to find a newer offer." I tried to explain that the check-in offers pop up in the moment when you check in, but he said he couldn't do anything about it. Minor annoyance, but annoying nonetheless.
The food itself was not bad. The dippy eggs and toast were quite good, although my sausage links and potatoes were kind of cold. The pancakes were the real shining star of this meal though. They're marketed as 'pancrepes,' which is accurate: the thickness is somewhere between a crepe and a pancake.
I want so much to like this place, but I feel like we've gotten off to a bad start. On Light Up Night, my husband tried to make us a reservation here prior to the start of the Light Up Night events. He called and was told we could get a table at 4:30pm, but that 'there would only be lunch options.' That was fine with us, the important thing was that we wanted to eat and have enough time to make it to a tree-lighting up the street at 5:45.
When we got to the restaurant at 4:30, we were told there was 'no food' served until 5, and they couldn't imagine who gave us a reservation. The earliest they could seat us would be 5pm, but that would be too late for us to make the event we wanted to go to. If they had said, 'We don't take reservations until 5pm' when we initially called, we wouldn't have minded, we would just have come back on a different day. As it was though, we ended up missing dinner completely until long after the Light Up Night Festivities ended, as it was impossible to get a reservation anywhere else at that point.
So, we gave it the second chance for 'brunch' a couple of weekends ago, and we were still unimpressed. I feel like we'll probably give it one more shot sometime for lunch, because I want to try the pierogies (I have a thing with trying all the pierogies of every Pittsburgh restaurant!), but it kind of breaks my heart to have a place with so much potential disappoint.
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