Thank God for coffee! especially when it's cold!
It's good diner food but nothing really to run out and crow about! It's solid short order food with nothing terribly standing out!
When you arrive at the diner be ready there will be a wait; what feels like an annoying way to long for what your getting on your plate wait.
When you are seated the servers are busy, super busy and yet they find a way to be courteous and are on top of it at all times. I have never had a problem with the servers and they are very helpful when needed.
As I have pointed out at the beginning of the review there is nothing really to crow about here. It's dinner food with the potatoes cooked in a large batch which means that your Lyonnaise potatoes are very hit and miss. Sometime you get a well cook morning potatoes tender and tasty then on the other occasions you end up with a lump of semi cooked not so tender kinda cold mess.
The rest is relatively blase and as I said standard diner food... One major disappointment was the "pancakes". I was ready for light n' fluffy golden goodness ready to soak up some syrup and fill my belly. Instead I was greeted with crepe style more Nordic pancakes. So for those of you who love a traditional fluffy golden pancake you will be met with disappointment. Also the last couple of times I've gone in their pancakes have had a heavy baking soda flavor present.
Now I know this place is a Pittsburgh favorite with pictures on the walls when you first come in showing even President Obama ate there. I can tell you that it's serviceable diner food nothing really stands out and makes me go WOW! Which leads me to believe this place used to be the bomb diggity but now is primarily getting by on reputation alone.
It's worth the visit to say you've been but not the repeat as it's just another diner with just another plate of odd pancakes and run of the mill food.