We came here for dessert and drink after dinner and we were pleasantly surprised.
We each had a local beer at the bar with a pumpkin custard with pistachio brittle. Wonderful, warm, and festive, the Saturday before Christmas. Professional staff and an elegant warmth impressed us at this Italian restaurant in P'burgh's strip district.
I loved looking at the decor in Lidia's. The massive slate fireplace looks like something out of Game of Thrones and I couldn't help but imagine a giant pig roasting in it. The chandeliers and the accent lights are made of handblown glass globes. The main dining room chandeliers are beautiful, in and of themselves, but they are not lit to their best advantage. Clearly expensive and complicated, but not well thought through.
All that aside, the beer was great, the pumpkin custard was fabulous and we had a great time walking back to the hotel in the warm Pittsburgh rain.