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  • I ate here this past Wednesday night with my girlfriend for dinner. We had been wanting to come and eat at Bistro for awhile and their Pittsburgh Restaurant Week menu finally gave us the push that we needed. I had made 7:30 reservations a week or so prior to coming here and we a little before that time. Around 15 minutes later we were seated at our table. The inside of the restaurant is actually smaller than I expected but clean and modern. A bar dominates one side while the dining room has most of the other side. Since it was Pittsburgh restaurant week my girlfriend and I both went with the 3 course pre-fixe menu. I decided to start out with the braised pork Mac and cheese followed by a coffee crusted mahi mahi before finishing with a coffee panna cotta. My girlfriend started with the pumpkin cappuccino soup followed by the white balsamic chicken with red wine risotto and finished with the butterscotch rice pudding. Our first courses came out in a short amount of time and looked fantastic. The flavors on my Mac and cheese were awesome and I was really enjoying it. Sadly the pork part on it was dried and hard which I didn't mind too much and it still had some good flavors but it was still slightly disappointing. In the meantime my girlfriends soup was awesome with a rich pumpkin flavor and some spices. My entree was the coffee rubbed mahi mahi with yucca purée, candied kumquats, coconut rice and some asparagus spears. My favorite part of the meal was eating the kumquats with the yucca purée as the kumquats had a great citrusy sweet and sour quality while the purée was thick and creamy. The mahi mahi was cooked nicely but I couldn't taste any of the coffee rub which I thought was a shame as the fish was supposed to be the star of this dish. My girlfriend sad that her chicken was a little dry but that she enjoyed the red wine risotto and could taste some of the wine in it. Whenever our desserts came, they both looked good. Since I normally share at least a piece of everything with my girlfriend and vice versa, she thankfully took the first bit of my panna cotta which revealed a chocolate crust to it. Normally this would not be a big deal except for the fact that I specifically asked our waiter if the panna cotta had any chocolate in it before ordering to which he responded that it did not. While I did not state the reason for my asking (chocolate gives me migraines), I would think that a waiter who does not know what is in a dessert would go and check as there could be other issues involved. Instead of having to return the dessert, my girlfriend ended up keeping it and gave me her butterscotch rice pudding which would have been what I would have ordered anyways. The pudding was good enough but did little to allay my unhappiness over the fact that I could have had a migraine from eating the panna cotta. The bottom line for me is that I would probably head back her again in the future but I would hope that the servers would be better informed. Their food by itself probably deserves at least a 4 star rating but I was very disappointed with the fact that the server did not know the menu as it could cause issues in the future, especially if someone has a bad allergy to a food.
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