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| - I just went to the A Taste of Art restaurant at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Yum! Yum Yum! One of the best $11.50 lunches I have ever had. Yes, that's right! I said $11.50 (including gratuity, but not taxes) For $11.50 I had Shrimp and Corn Fritters with avocado creme fraiche and smoky chiptle aioli as an appetizer and as my main entree, I had Beef Brisket and Roasted Potatoes with a cherry and onion compote. Brisket is one of those dishes that can be very good and succulent or veddy, veddy bad and as tough as shoe leather. The brisket served today was veddy, veddy good! Likewike, fritters can be quite tasty or leaden and greasy. The Shrimp and Corn Fritters were mighty tasty.
Since this place is a cooking school restaurant, don't expect head-over-heels-fall-in love-at-first-sight service. However, for the price point and the quality of the food served, you'd be hard pressed to find a better place for lunch. Additionally, each student semester/quarter the menu changes and a new cuisine is selected for the students to develop dishes around. This quarter the cuisine is Italian. Now you, the diner, will see several dishes that fall under the "Italian" umbrella. Now don't be surprised to see quite a number of dishes which don't quite fit the Itailian mode....Can we talk about Brussel Sprouts and Smoked Pork with Spaetzle? Hunh?
Anyway, go and enjoy, you'll definitely find something that you will not be able to put down!
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