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| - My first time eating here was on Valentines Day with my wife. I chose three stars, but really I think more along the lines of 3 1/2 - 4.
Atmosphere:
The bar area looked nice, but I can't really speak to it all that much because we were seated upstairs. I like the look of the place, it feels like you are sittig in your own living room with the hardwood floors and the fire fire place. The place throws me off a bit though, though Toast! is nice I would not really consider it a "white table cloth" kind of place and it doesn't really mesh with the the whole place, at least in my opinion, but I guess that is really neither here nor there. The music playing is not what I expected, as they place a lot more modern music, which again throws me off with the white table cloths, haha.
Drinks:
They have a nice wine selection, not the best I've seen, but better than most of the restaurants I've been to in the area.
Food:
Against my better judgement we started with the crab cake. I did not like it at all, the crab tasted off, but I guess you'll get that when the crab isn't fresh.
What really matters here is the food and it is pretty darn good. My wife had the Australian Barramundi with rock shrimp risotto and baby bok choy and the lobster sauce. Though I didn't try the barramundi my wife thought it was very good and kept raving about the risotto.
I had the flat iron steak with potatos gratin, hedgehod mushrooms and jus. The steak was done to a perfect medium rare and was juicy and had greate flavor to it, they got the steak right. The gratin was okay, nothing special, and the portion was about the size of a couple spoonfuls. My really only complaint that is if you are going to have three steak options on the menu, why not make one of them more traditional, at least of Valentines Day...
For desert we had to order two, because two jumped off the page at us! We ordered the peanutbutter ice cream sandwich and donut holes. I won't go to far into these two dishes, but they were damn good!
Overall this is the best meal I've had in Pittsburgh. Does that mean it will be the best down the road? No and I hope not. I was a little underwhelmed, but I am not by any means saying I disliked the place, I guess I was expecting too much. I will most certainly go back at some point.
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