Barbara Y. wrote: > > Tell us more about the Grand Canal. > > --Barb Grand Canal located in Sharpsburg is a small, family-run restaurant specializing in homemade pasta dishes. It is not the traditional Pittsburgh red sauce Italian. The menu is not extensive. Price is average. BYOB. Atmosphere is informal and seating is limited. My favorite appetizer is the mussels. When available, I love the gnochhi. Desserts are light and yummy. Mike
Pittsburgh, PA
Grand Canal
Woodie's review of Sharpsburg restaurants Friday reminded us we've been wanting to check out the Grand Canal. We hadn't been there since it crossed the street. Well, it was great! My wife had a smoked mozzarella and roasted red pepper ravioli and I had a pasta with hot peppers and pancetta in marinara. Both were excellent! They have a great list of Italian wines very reasonably priced. Though it was quite busy the service was very good. We especially liked that while waiting about 1/2 hour for a table the owner came over several times to update us on how things were moving along. Sure beats that "Wonder if they forgot us?" feeling you sometimes get. Anyway, though obviously we are not "regulars" there we really felt we were treated as though we were. All in all a wonderful meal in a very attractive setting. I might well have given 4 stars instead of the 3 1/2 in the PG. JWW