Fajita Grill Opening Soon...

 Someone wrote:
 # Jim M. wrote:
 # >
 # > Just thought some of yinz might be interested...
 # >
 # > I just happened to meet one of the owners of the fajita grill today. He
 # > says the restaurant will be open in about ten days. It's on Ellsworth
 # > avenue, next to the little shopping center where the Vertigo Bar is.

 # Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!!! Can't wait!
 # Hope it's really true!!!

 yes, I talk to Carlos at Si Senor once in a while, but I've been
 hesitant to post anything since they seem to be using that code
 from "Wrath of Khan" where hours are days and days are weeks, etc.
 We were holding at "3 weeks" for quite a while, then recently slipped
 down to "2 weeks."  I suppose the estimate should become more and
 more accurate as the length of time goes down, so maybe 10 days
 is a reality...

  -Rick

 Michael M. wrote:

 > I have never before heard of the Fajita Grill.
 >
 > At the risk of sounding like a fool, may I ask if Kate is being
 > sarcastic here?  It sure sounds like it from the way the post is
 > written.  Reading the rest of the posts on this topic, it sounds
 > like there is some genuine interest in this place, however.

 I don't want to speak for Kate, but (speaking for her anyway) I'm sure
 she was NOT being sarcastic, since she has spoken longingly of the
 Fajita Grill on many occasions.

 >
 >
 > Can someone fill me on all this?  If the Fajita Grill is a good
 > place I would actually like to try it sometime.  I am more interested
 > in what the Fajita Grill is, rather than if and when it is opening.
 > Is it a good place?
 >

       The Fajita Grill in its former incarnation on Old Clariton Rd was,
 by a large consensus, the best Mexican (some might say the only true
 Mexican) restaurant in town. It specialized in authentic, somewhat
 upscale, Mexican food; though it was not terribly expensive. It was the
 only place in town where dishes were prepared with some of the more
 interesting, complex Mexican sauces, like mole ( a sauce made with a
 large variety of chile peppers, sweet spices, and chocolate),  pipian
 verde or rojo ( made with pounded, shelled pumpkin seeds, ) and
 Chipotle-peanut sauce( Chipotle peppers are smoked, dried, red
 jalapenos).  Anne Haigh, the critic from Pittsburgh Magazine, frequently
 listed this restaurant as one of her favorites.
        Several months ago, the fajita grill closed its doors on Old
 Clariton Rd. I'm not sure why, though I often thought that they might do
 even better in the city. ( We only ate there about 1/10 as much as we
 would of liked to, since it was virtually impossible for my wife and I
 to get all the way out there by their insanely early closing time of 9.)
 Since then, many members of this group have hung on every rumor of there
 reopening.  I hope the restaurant survives the translation to shadyside,
 excellent restaurants have been known not to (i.e. Simply French).

 Ralph

 > --
 > "...a kind of amazing, eternal reliability of nature...
 >   ... this everlasting sanity persists."
 >
 >      -Alan Watts.