This place is BYOB which I LOVE and I remember coming here and loving it in the past - this trip was, unfortunately, not as great as I remembered.
We walk in and there are a total of 4 customers in this huge restaurant and that's including the 2 of us that just got there - yikes! I guess it did fill up with 2 more tables by the time we left though...
Our server Yanni was great - we were his only table so we got lots of love from him which I appreciated. I wanted the food to be better than it actually was especially since the prices were higher than I remembered.
The bread they give you is a garlic toast that I couldn't stop eating - so good. Our apps of the breaded eggplant and the artichokes (served cold) were a great start. They were a little heavy handed with the vinegar on the salad which is when the meal started to turn. I got my penne in vodka sauce which was so incredibly salty. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE salt but I couldn't figure out if it was super salty from the prosciutto or just from it being overly seasoned. Aside from it being distractingly over salted it was just ok-the sauce didn't blow my mind. My husband's lamb chops ordered medium rare had to be sent back due to them being too rare. Honestly, if the restaurant were slammed it would be more forgiveable but we were the ONLY customers they were cooking for - how'd they get it wrong? I guess the lamb chops were delicious once they came back the 2nd time around.
Maybe it was an off night but we were disappointed - especially for it being more pricey than I remembered and with so many places to go/try in Pittsburgh we will, sadly, not be back.