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The restaurant is located in the hot spot of the Pitt campus, right next to the lawn in front of the Cathedral, which makes it a very scenic location and visible. The inside of the restaurant isn't the neatest, but that's because they usually have to move tables around for larger parties of guests. Still, it's a lively environment that pairs well with the large glass side that lets you gaze into the large green lawn.
Onto the food! So options are porch are definitely plentiful, and drinks are complete as well. But in terms of the quality of the food, I just didn't find anything tasty. Even for things that you can't mess up like a cheese platter or a smoked meat platter, the food was just really dry and weirdly flavored. And for the entrees, I was thoroughly disappointed by how poor everything was made. For one of their ribeye steaks, it was so loose that I had no idea if it was ground beef or steak. For another one of their steaks, that wasn't ground beef, it was so dry that I was essentially chewing on rubber the entire time. Their side dishes are usually the standard, except when they try to be extra, and ugh, it's really an embarrassment. They just out so much crap that you don't want to eat and really make you question what they put in their food.
If there is any bright spot about porch, it's their dessert. But if you're serving desserts from other places like Millie's ice cream, that's not even credit well deserved to the porch.
Sorry Porch, but that was absolutely embarrassing.
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