Brad M. wrote: > Where do you like to go for lunch downtown? > > I was pointed to Juno's in Oxford Center and "Paragon" somewhere. Are these > any good? What about the Tap or Terrace rooms in the Westin? Where else? > Juno's is a quite good. If you want a good Italian lunch, it's your best bet on that side of town. (For those near the Convention Center I tend to recommend Carmasi's (sp?) Tuscany Grill, near 7th and Penn.) The Paragon Lunch is a good cafeteria in the basement of the Kopper's Building. So if you are in the mood for good, reasonably priced cafeteria food (with a very good selection), it's a good choice. If you are at the William Penn, you are less than 15 minutes (and probably more like ten minutes if you walk at a brisk pace) from Sushi Kim, which features very good Korean food and a Sushi bar. Walk down Grant to Penn, turn right, and walk a couple of blocks toward the Strip. ****************************************************************** Jim Mann [email removed] Transarc Corporation The Gulf Tower, 707 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (412) 338-4442 WWW Homepage: http://www.transarc.com/~jmann/Home.html
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Lunch Downtown
Other downtown places I enjoy: DelFrate's at the corner of 10th St. and Liberty, across from the Doubletree (formerly Vista) Hotel. Traditional Italian-American food, well-prepared at a reasonable price (lunch entrees with salad and bread about $5-6). However, it fills up by 11:30 and there can be a wait after that. Also, I always come out smelling like smoke, even though it doesn't seem that smoky inside. Liang's Hunan on the first floor of the Doubletree. Sit-down Chinese, again at a reasonable price and I think higher-than-average quality (entrees $5-6 and come with soup). Scoglio Uptown. In the Law and Finance Building on 4th Ave between Grant and Smithfield. Italian, fancier than DelFrate's and heartier (read bigger portions and fairly high-fat) than Juno. Entrees more like $7-8. Reservations probably necessary. There's another Scoglio in Fifth Avenue Place. Hana. Japanese in Market Square. Upstairs on one of the little side streets that comes in from Fifth Avenue. I like their noodle dishes. Casual atmosphere, probably $7-8. The Tick Tock on the first floor of Kaufmann's can be fun for a kicky, retro kind of experience (lots of blue hair and waitresses who call you "hon"). Diner-type food. There are two other restaurants on the 11th floor, one pretty swanky and one mid-range. I just tried the new Noodle House on Third Ave between Grant and Ross. I wasn't overwhelmed, but I'd be willing to try it again. The only place I know downtown that has Chinese noodle soup and one of my favorite, Singapore Rice Noodles (vermicelli with meat, vegetables and curry powder. Chinese-language karaoke plays continuously on several large TVs. It's distracting, but fills in any conversational lulls :-) Tony
Brad M. wrote: >I am hosting a conference week after next at the Westin William Penn >hotel downtown on Grant, and I want to recommend some places to go for >lunch that are in walking distance from the hotel. We have 1 and 1/2 >hours for lunch each day. > >Where do you like to go for lunch downtown? ... >I know there are Transarc people reading this list who work real close >to there! Brad - those watching their budget and/or in search of some "atmosphere" while having a fast delicious lunch, should be directed to the Smithfield Street Hot Dog Shop, in particular the rear section which serves a fantastic hot-from-the-oven, Italian Hoagie that is both reasonably priced and made from the freshest ingredients possible, including a Cibrone Brothers Roll that can't be beat. The same guy works the counter every day, and he manages to greet his regulars with a confirmation of their order (while some folks change up on occasion, it's amazing how good his memory is), shuffles stuff in and out of a double decker pizza oven with the moves of an acrobat, and even manages to belt out an occasional Johnny Mathis or Tony Bennett refrain while he's at it. I found this place while on a three week job at Transarc, and after trying a couple of other places during the first week, I did the hoagie thing almost exclusively for the last two weeks. It's most easily reached from a little alley between William Penn Place and Smithfield that I -think- is Strawberry way, but don't quote me on that. One major drawback though, plenty of stand-and-eat counter space, but no seating.
Someone wrote: >Tom P. wrote: >> >> Brad - those watching their budget and/or in search of some "atmosphere" >> while having a fast delicious lunch, should be directed to the Smithfield >> Street Hot Dog Shop, in particular the rear section which serves a >> fantastic hot-from-the-oven, Italian Hoagie that is both reasonably >> priced and made from the freshest ingredients possible, including a >> Cibrone Brothers Roll that can't be beat. > >Do you mean Wiener World? Uh, yeah. I have no idea where I got "S.St.H.D.S." other than it being a fugment of my tired, tired mind.
In Aberdeen Scotland it's Got To be Victoria Restaurant in the heart of Union Street the Silver Granite Main Street Ask for Alfie he'll give you a smoking or no smaoking table. By the way do you know John Clunas he's a pastor in Pitsburg and comes from Aberdeen - if you do I'd like his E Mail address. Thanks Happy eating Alfie Cordiner From [email removed] Wed Nov 29 15:37:24 EST 1995 Article: 21145 of rec.food.restaurants
It's got to be: 1) Primanti's on Cherry Way (the fish sandwich or the capicolla or the chili) or 2) Jimmy's on Smithfield St. (the Italian hoagies)