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| - We had been waiting YEARS for superior motors to open, and by the time it had, we had already moved away! Fortunately, we we able to make time to come out here on our last trip to Pittsburgh.
The food was delicious. I loved Salt of the Earth, and was really looking forward to Kevin Sousa's next venture. In our group we had the octopus, hamachi, almost all the entrees and the pavlova and bread pudding desserts, and saw him working in the open concept kitchen while we were enjoying our meal.
A couple things:
I had issues with our main waitress throughout the night. We were in a group of 6 and we ask a lot of questions when it comes to food and satisfying everyone's palette. She came off and very condescending and more like we were intruding on her restaurant, rather than welcoming us to share this experience with her. We did not feel like sentiment with other waiters and waitresses who came by to collect plates. This was very off-putting and there was really nothing we could do about it.
Cocktails were not good. My watermelon gin drink tasted like watered down gin. I had one sip and didn't touch it for the rest of the night. I had hoped that our waitress would notice and offer a new one but it just sat there full until our check came. Our general experience with her for the entire night was really bizarre.
The interior decor is really nice but the elevated tables around the perimeter of the restaurant have HUUUUGE tables. Really nice and spacious but hard to reach certain plates. Also when our waitress handed us new plates in between I went to grab mine but she wouldn't let go and stared at me during this power play until I let go so SHE could put my plate down. So weird.
I want to say that the food was worth the money but this particular experience, having to deal with our waitress, was not. I hope to give SM another chance, but don't feel particularly inclined to.
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