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| - I must confess that I didn't go to Joseph Tambellini's for a long time despite it's very high Yelp rating because its website is so strange. There are photographs of each item on the menu, which made me think of it as some kind of Denny'sesque Italian restaurant. And the clientele, which is generally composed of dressed up grandparents. But itching for something new, a group of my friends and I tried it last night.
It is a traditional upscale Italian restaurant with a great atmosphere, excellent service, a solid bar and wine list, but unadventurous entrees. It's the Pamela's of upscale Pittsburgh restaurants. Each entree comes with a salad, which is good, and a somewhat bland tomato cream sauce pasta dish. My NY strip steak and a friend's pork chop were excellent, but friends who ordered the fish courses were not impressed. Rat pack era music plays in the background.
The food will probably pleasing to most traditional Pittsburghers (particularly those who expect to eat a lot of food or are over 55 years old), but it is not particularly creative or exciting. If you do go there, order a steak and try to sub in one of the more unusual pastas (or take a look at the photos of all the entrees online before you go).
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