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| - Coming back home after trips to Paris and New York, Chef Racicot brings world class flavor home to Pittsburgh. Notion delivers amazing food, tasty, visual, sensual. There is true art to both flavor and presentation. It is incredibly incredibly underpriced for what it would run in New York, Vegas, or Paris. To this end, Pittsburghers can enjoy world class flavor on a middle class budget.
A few comments:
You come for the food. The service is homely and kind, perhaps undertrained in the elements of haute cuisine, but perhaps if they did appear to be too trained, they would scare away local customers! Our server was a bit too eager, a faux pas perhaps in high end service. That said, he always made up for it, realizing mistakes and making them better.
The decor is obviously from Ikea, and could do with some local art for sale, which would draw other crowds perhaps. This comes with time, of course.
Some things on the menu are perhaps misleading. (Foie gras in the duck dish could be marked as a terrine instead, I thought I was going to get the creamy goodness of a paté.) That said, the deliciousness of the prime rib was completely unexpected and made the hairs on my neck stand up (like the time I had truffled mashed potatoes and pigeon stuffed with foie gras at Robuchon's place in Paris). I am happy to know food can do that in Pittsburgh.
Lastly, while the wine selections could include more South American options, the cocktails are KILLER. High five for the juleps and other American cocktails. Bringing class back into our lives.
All in all, best restaurant experience I had in Pittsburgh yet. Sadly, I have to leave soon!
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