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| - All right, people. Can we all please finally shake off the illusion that Bloomfield has amazing Italian restaurants? Granted, I haven't been to *all* of them, but I've been to most of them and for the mediocre Pleasure Bar to be the best of them is just sad.
The real problem here: This is food for fat people. Lots of fried stuff. Lots of oil. Yeah, those potato balls were delicious, but dear god were they heavy. I guess I should have expected fried balls of mashed potatoes to be heavy, but of course there wasn't just potato in there. There was cheese and I think I even detected some mayonnaise. This is definitely a "sometimes food." A delicious, heavy sometimes food.
Now, full disclosure: I'm a vegetarian and restaurants are always a completely different experience for vegetarians. So if you're not veg, you may want to take all of this with a grain of salt. They may do meat dishes spectacularly. But vegetarians, take note.
Italian restaurants aren't really known for making decent veg food and this place is no different. I had the portabello mushroom sandwich. First off, the sandwich would have been better had the bread been toasted. However, it was very soft and airy - not something I'd expect from ciabatta. The mushrooms tasted like they had been marinated in Kraft Zesty Italian, cooked in more Kraft Zesty Italian and then topped with Kraft Zesty Italian. This was by far the oiliest sandwich I've ever had. To make it worse, there was too much cheese - two thick slices of provolone. Am I the only who has noticed that too much cheese on things is a real problem in Pittsburgh?
On the positive side, the bartender was very attentive and very polite. Also, the beer selection was good. I'd definitely drink here, but eating here, eh, not so much for me.
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