Our dinner last night was reasonably good in terms of food and service. However, the Pittsburgh Italian red sauce food NEEDED a decent glass of wine to complete the experience. Unfortunately it's impossible to have a good wine with dinner here. The wine sold here is an indescribably undrinkable jug variety and they won't let you bring your own. The server and manager disingenuously claim that state liquor laws prohibit bringing wine into the restaurant, but even the severely uninformed know that isn't true.
Apparently the owners have not noticed that all American sit-down restaurants sell or encourage table wine consumption. You can get a good glass or bottle of wine at all of the fast casual restaurants that infect the interstate highway interchanges as well as at the oxymoronic upscale burger places. In Silvioni's defense, they obviously have a number of satisfied repeat customers. However, to paraphrase Alice, there surely are a large number of un-customers who, like me, could be converted to customers if they could get a good glass of chianti to wash down that pasta.
Arrivederci Silvioni's. We won't return.