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My caveats are these: we ate there on Valentine's Day while visiting Pittsburgh, though we didn't know it would be a prix fixe menu. Second, I love Lidia's cooking and have been waiting a long time to get to her place.
The restaurant is beautiful inside. The Valentine's menu was more limited than what I had hoped for - the whole menu - but it wasn't bad. We included the wine pairings with our menu. Bruschetta around as the first (with prosecco); the endive salad, tarte, and roasted beets (x2) for primi; three pastas (x2), swordfish, and salmon for mains. Both sets came with a selection of either a white or red wine. Dessert is four pieces per person (truffle, petit four, chocolate cookie, and one other), plus dessert wine. The food was excellent, with one misfire on the veggie version of the paparadelle (normally bolognese) - it was weak in the sauce and more tomato juice than sauce. Cost is an issue on the rating: the menu was $50 and the wine pairing (not required) was $25. Once you get into the $75 range pp, ($360 with tip), you actually expect a bit more than this - better wine, a few tweeks to the menu. I think that with a full menu we might do less food, different choices, and split a bottle of wine and get in for about $60 pp, which seems more reasonable to me.
I suspect a night with the full set of options would work out better. 3.5 for this night; probably more like 4.5 on another night. Definitely worth the trip.
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