I have only really been here late night so keep that in mind
Ritters is located within walking distance of the bars in Shadyside and Bloomfield and unfortunately it's the only place open at 3am. As such I have been here more times than I would ever want to...
If I were blackout drunk cooking on a George foreman grill I could make better food...
If you like your eggs served in a puddle of miscellaneous kitchen liquid, or bite into a chicken parm sandwich and have the breading slip off of the entire piece of chicken this is your place!!!
Though I could list the horror stories I have experienced I will concentrate on one that summarizes this diner....
Friend orders a milkshake... Only gets the glass and not the residual leftover in the mixing metal cup... He drinks it rather quickly and wonders if the leftover will ever come... So he waits and waits keeps looking at the counter where the leftover bit is just sitting there...
45 minutes later waitress finally walks over to it, drops a little bit of icecream in it mixes it... Puts it into a glass and serves it to someone else.
We called it the circle of milkshake life...in that every milkshake is half old half new.
People keep coming back perhaps because they like the little nickel jukeboxes or because nothing else is open , I have even heard it being called a Pittsburgh culinary institution... I'm sure the brothers primanti, Pamela, and the delucas are rolling over in their graves... If they are Infact dead.
What's sad that though I am downright disgusted with this place at times,I know that I will return one drunken night ... Fml