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| - Divine, start to finish!
I was in Pittsburgh for the Vet Games. It was Friday night, 11PM, my guy had been playing rugby all day... He needed food and I needed beer. This place was pushing distance from our hotel by the Convention Center, so we decided to check it out.
I called to make sure the kitchen was still open and got Mike at the front desk. He was hilarious on the phone and told us to come over. He was equally amusing when we got there. Bonus point - we hadn't mentioned that we had a wheelchair in our party. It's not usually a big deal, we just move a chair, whatever. We got there and Mike just said he had the best seat in the house for us and would be right back after the 'final preparations.' That was the politest way we've ever heard someone leave to move a chair without making a big deal out of it. A small thing, but it was one of many cute touches throughout our meal and a nice way to start.
Atmosphere is fun, the chalk drawing with the different edible parts of a cow was awesome. There's a fine line between trendy and pretentious and they totally made it.
Food - oh yes. We started with the fries with truffle mayo (string fries, delicious) and the lobster mac 'n cheese (mmm.) I got the mushroom flatbread which was perfect and Jeff got the tomahawk - a huge steak on the bone (shaped like a tomahawk) with chive butter and steak fries. All our food was incredible and we had plenty of leftovers.
The draught selection was on the small side, but they had a super random selection of cans and bottles. It's been a few years since I've lived out east so it was fun to try some new beer. They had an elaborate bar but we weren't able to take advantage of all that.
All in all, great. Host, waitress, food, drinks... I have no idea when I'll be in Pittsburgh again but I would definitely go out of my way if I was in town!
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