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| - Food - 5 stars
Hostess - 1 star. Awful.
The food at Sienna is fantastic (the only reason why I have been back more than once). I live in NYC and am pretty picky about my Italian restaurants. I'm currently in Pittsburgh on a long term work assignment- staying downtown, and therefore I eat dinner out every night alone.
I have gone to Sienna both for dinner and lunch. The meal both times has been fantastic BUT the hostess (same one both times) was rude, condescending, and inappropriate. I hope management reads this and has a talk with her. I understand that I am one person and would NEVER take up a big table on a busy night at a restaurant. I'm happy sitting at the bar. That being said-- on a Monday night in an empty restaurant, I expect to be welcomed kindly. No looking me up and down, and quesitoning "on, ONE person? Dining ALONE? Well... I guess we have space for you at the bar." No kidding, in the empty restaurant- thanks. Then I went there again at lunch (WANTING to eat at the bar) when it was early and there were tons of tables open and the bar was full and again-- the look, the grimace.
It is a SHAME that a restaurant with such fantastic food (meatballs, octopus appetizer, flatbread, and wine selection are AMAZING) chooses to put such an ugly face forward.
I would love to have Sienna on my weekly restaurant rotation but instead am opting for Meat & Potatoes (MUCH busier but still recognize me with a warm welcome) and Penn Avenue Fish Company (same thing-- busy but welcoming).
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