Hi Kate - I tried to email you directly, but it wouldn't go through - I've always had good pasta dishes (if I remember correctly, the menu highlights mostly seafood and pasta) at the 1902 tavern, and it's always been busy enough to make me confident, but never a long wait, and never too much noise for conversation. I only eat there about once every two years, but I always have the same experience. Froggies, on the other hand, has a loud bar atmosphere - definitely not dinner-conversation-friendly. In addition, the only time I actually ordered dinner, I got amonia-scented fish. Although they offered to replace the meal, I was very turned off and have never returned. Hope this helps. Melissa
Pittsburgh, PA
Downtown restaurants
Places I've been before: >Froggies In the basement of the Oxford Centre, I believe. Restaurant bar joint. Not particularly amazing, not a fantastic beer, wine, booze or food selection. Main money maker is probably professional happy hours, where downtown suits sip suds and get noisy. >Hana Japanese joint in Market Square. Not particularly cheap, especially for the straightforward Japanese noodle and sushi fare. >Liang's Hunan Chinese joint in Doubletree building on Liberty (across from the Greyhound station). Sit-down family style chinese restaurant. Windows all around, not a bad joint overall. Passable food for quasi-cultured Americans. They do have sesame noodles. Doug
Doug L. wrote:
|> >Hana
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|> Japanese joint in Market Square. Not particularly cheap, especially
|> for the straightforward Japanese noodle and sushi fare.
A friend recommended Hana for sushi, but when we went there, the
sushi was pretty awful (poorly done, with some too-old fish), and very
expensive (much more so than Sushi Kim, Sushi Too, or (sigh) the Oakside
Inn). We might've been there on a bad night, but we don't plan on going back.
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- Kurt Vonnegut, _Harper's_, 11/95Christine B. wrote: > Any take on Little Tokyo in Mt Lebanon? Sushi & noodles, but I'm > not experienced enough to know if it's any good. Well, it's been over a month since I've been there, so I can't recall all of the details, but both the sushi and the udon were very good. The udon was the best I've had yet in Pittsburgh... the broth was nice and flavorful with fat udon noodles and a lot of other goodies (prawns, fish cakes, shitake mushrooms, etc.) The sushi platter came with the standard miso soup and salad, which were both very good (though the dressing at KotoBuki is still better). The sushi was fresh and just the right size, but with a little too much rice. Actually, I've had the best sushi yet at Kiku in Station Square. They do have all-you-can-eat sushi on the first and third Tuesday of every month... but I was much more impressed with the quality when ordering a sushi/sashimi platter from the normal menu: very fresh, delicate pieces of fish with just the right amount of rice. -heather
Doug L. wrote: > >Liang's Hunan > > Chinese joint in Doubletree building on Liberty (across from the > Greyhound station). Sit-down family style chinese restaurant. > Windows all around, not a bad joint overall. Passable food for > quasi-cultured Americans. They do have sesame noodles. Liang's Hunan has relocated; they're not in the Doubletree anymore. In theory, they have reopened somewhere else, although they were not able to give correct directions to the new location to us on the phone (we followed the directions and wandered around for a while before deciding to eat elsewhere). __ Ben Cox