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| - The first time I set foot in Gullifty's, I was scouting for an apartment in the Squirrel Hill area. It was a Saturday at lunch time. The place was crowded, but the customers looked like they were eating there out of habit rather than out of culinary choice. The floor was sticky. There were tacky posters. The food was kind of bad. The restaurant made me wonder if I picked the right place to live.
Fast forward a couple of years. I learned that you go to Gullifty's for desserts after movies, not Saturday brunch. But i remained skeptical -- how good could the dessert be when the entrance greets you with a rotating cake display? But, in an effort to acclimate to the local culture, I gave the restaurant a couple more tries. The crowd at night were mostly young people, too busy having a good time to pay attention to what they're eating. The desserts were big and sugary, nothing extraordinary. One positive change: the tacky posters were gone, and the floor was less sticky.
Fast forward yet a few more years. I finally come to appreciate what Gullifty's has to offer: they open late (for Squirrel Hill), and they do a passable job if the dish is simple. So on some cold winter night when you suddenly have a hankering for a burger after 10pm, Gullifty's is there for you, maybe w/ some live jazz.
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