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| - This review is more of a 2.5 stars. I'm still tore between two and three. So, I've been to the Wooden Nickel in Monroeville once for a baby shower, and the food and service was decent. This was my first trip to the Irwin location. My mom and I were out shopping and it was late afternoon. I needed to get groceries, but everyone knows it's not a good idea to go grocery shopping on an empty stomach, so we stopped in.
There are three separate rooms- a bar area, the main dining area (with the excellent view of the open kitchen), and another sort of dining room. The latter I assume is used more for larger parties, showers, etc. There was a sign near the front stating to please seat yourself in the dining room, so we found our way there. The place was completely empty. My mom commented on this but I didn't think it was such a big deal since 1) it was late afternoon, way too early for a dinner crowd and 2) the Steeler game was on, and it's not a place you'd go to watch the game. Plus, it was an hour or so before the Pirates game started.
Our first waitress was friendly, she answered some questions we had about the menu, etc. My mom ordered the Pittsburgh salad with shrimp (you could choose between chicken, shrimp, steak or salmon - all at different prices). I ordered the Pesto Chicken Caprese sandwich with coleslaw (other choices were fries, soup or onion rings).
As I mentioned, we were the only customers, and it took a good 25 minutes to get our meals. A second waitress came with our meals and announced she would be our new waitress. She set up mom's salad down and stated that the "shrimp was buried under the fries".
My sandwich had fries on the plate and I told the waitress that I had ordered cole slaw; she told me to keep the fries and she'd go get me cole slaw, which she did. My sandwich had two extremely thick pieces of chicken so I decided to eat it without the bun. They were covered in pesto, mozzarella and tomato, which would have been delicious, but the chicken was super dry and there was waaaayyy too much pesto, I had to take a bunch of it off. I did try and few of the fries, you know, since they were there anyways. And I have to admit they were really good, they were crispy and had a nice seasoning. My cole slaw was okay, I like to add pepper but there was none on the table and the waitress wasn't in view, so I went without. My mom's salad was small, even for a lunch portion. There were exactly 3 shrimp, again what the heck, even ridiculous for a lunch portion. But, she did say it was tasty nonetheless.
Our bill came and for some reason the bill was less that it should have been. Salad price with shrimp was $13 but we were only charged $10 and my sandwich should have been $11 but we were charged $9. I thought this was weird, we did order off the lunch menu, but I looked later and the prices are the same for the dinner menu. Obviously, we didn't complain.
Overall, the place is very clean and decorated nicely. I was very surprised at the time it took to get our meals since no one else was in there and the food was fair, at best. I would probably give the Wooden Nickel one more try, but I wouldn't go out of my way.
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