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| - I stopped by here last night with my fiance and parents for dinner. It had been awhile since the last time that I had visited Soba and it was nice to see that they had renovated the restaurant. I have always found Soba to be a pretty cool place and these renovations have only helped. One of the most distinct parts of the restaurant is a wall in the dining room that has water coming down it giving it a waterfall-esque feel. Beyond that there are three levels of dining which is pretty unique for Pittsburgh restaurants. On this day we were seated on the second floor although I have eaten on all of them before. Finally the bar section of the restaurant is also pretty cool with a nice bar and then the surrounding tables seated down pretty low to the floor which is probably to give it an Asian feel.
For dinner my fiance and I decided to start off the evening with the crispy tofu. This is one of my favorite appetizers in Pittsburgh and it once again delivered. I don't know how they get the tofu so crispy on the outside and yet still somewhat silky on the inside but they do consistently. The dish is covered with a wonderful lemongrass sauce and garnished with some peanuts, scallions and jalepenos with the jalepenos being a new addition since the last time that I had tried it. While I thought that the jalepenos added quite a bit to the dish, my mother, who normally doesn't handle any spice very well, did not and ended up with her mouth on fire. For my entree I decided to go with the Dolsot Bi Bim Bap while my fiance went with the Pad Thai. If you have never ordered dolsot bibimbap, the dish is served in an hot stone bowl with all of the ingredients on top of the rice and the rice against the bottom of the bowl which makes the rice crispy. This version of bibimbap came with beef tips, poached egg, pickled shiitake, cucumber kim chi, mung bean sprouts, scallion, nori and goju jang. While I enjoyed the general flavoring of my dish with everything mixed together, I was not too happy with a couple pieces of meat that were in my dish. They were hard and if I had to guess, they had some tendon in them which is not what you are looking for whenever you are eating pre-cut beef tips. Beyond my dish I was also able to try some of my fiances Pad Thai, specifically some shrimp from it. It had some fabulous flavor with the slight natural sweetness of the shrimp combining with the taste of grilling.
The bottom line for me is that I will definitely head back to Soba again in the future. While this visit was not the best due to the beef tips (hence the four stars instead of the five stars I would have given on all previous visits), everything that I had still tasted good and I still think that Soba is in my top 5 list for restaurants in Pittsburgh.
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