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| - I might be the only person in Pittsburgh with meh feelings on this place.
That makes me sad, because I spent a good 3 months trying to get there.
I've been assured that the time we went was a little off...and then spoke with a co-worker who was there the same week, and she had the same feelings.
The menu feels like they are trying to hard to be unique, instead of just being good. Every item had the promise of being delicious, but then had some random stuff thrown in that made it taste off.
The menu changes frequently, so your experience will be totally different...but I will use our dessert as an illustration of the ridiculousness.
A S'more. I'm pretty sure it had a fancier name...but was intended to be a deconstructed S'more.
It was crumbled Golden Grahams, a dense chocolate cake, and homemade marshmallow goop. Totally almost awesome. But the marshmallow goop tasted - off. We asked the server, and she said "oh yeah, that's the elder flower! Some people don't like it!" EXACTLY. It's a freaking s'more, stop shoving edgy ingredients in it!
Every item we ate had some version of elder flower in it, ugh.
I'll be back, I'll try it again.
I love the atmosphere. I love that it's something different. But, jeez...stop trying so hard.
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