The "awesome blossom" onion thing can be found at Lone Star Steakhouse in Monroeville. It's in the shopping center behind the Jonnet Building. The atmosphere is quite entertaining - they give you peanuts in a bucket and you break them open and discard the shells on the floor, they have a country decor and play country music, the waiters and waitresses sing and dance for a selected number, and they give you the words to the tune at your table so you can join in! I'm not particularly fond of country music and the like but I really enjoyed this restaurant. The food was wonderful and abundant! We had the fillet mignon and ribs platter, and the fillet-ka-bob. The ribs were decent, the fillet was great. The service kind of took me by surprise - literally. The waitress actually sat down at our table to take our order! What I liked most about the service was that there was a 5-10 minute wait between appetizer, salad, and entree. This was great since there was so much food, and also we didn't feel rushed to finish and get out. I've gone late evening during the week and havn't had to wait for a table. Although, I've heard if you go around dinner time or on the weekend there's at least a 45 minute wait for a table. As far as the onion blossom, there are similar onion "loafs" at places such as Damon's, Hemingway's, and I think Applebee's and Friday's.
Pittsburgh, PA