I have only eaten food from the Mediterranean Grill once and after that unpleasant experience I would be reluctant to go back. A friend at work went there to get take-out for our lunch. I got the moussaka. This stuff was incredible! There was about a 3/4 inch thick layer of a sickly brownish gray paste (and I *do* mean PASTE) on top. This is apparently their version of the normal bechamel sauce that everyone else in the world uses. It was disgusting in taste, texture, and color. The meat and vegetable combination underneath was mediocre at best. They used zucchini instead of eggplant and it also had potatoes in it. I wouldn't have minded that if I had expected it and if the flavor had been really good. My friend says that she and friend of hers have eaten there a number of times and every- thing was always very good. Did I just get them on the days they hired a new, really bad, chef? Do my friend and her friends just have lead palates? Kate
Pittsburgh, PA
Mediterranean Grill
No, you're right. The Mediterranean Grill is a very poor restaurant. Many readers of pgh.food like it. On a brighter note, I'd like to repeat my recommendation for Jamaica Jamaica (5th Ave) uptown. It's an excellent Carribean restaurant (better than the ones I've tried in NY and DC :-) ). The decor is ghastly (and sexist). Try to concentrate on your food instead. Michael (two seas in one post) witbrock
Michael W. wrote: >On a brighter note, I'd like to repeat my recommendation for Jamaica Jamaica >(5th Ave) uptown. It's an excellent Carribean restaurant (better than the >ones I've tried in NY and DC :-) ). The decor is ghastly (and sexist). Try >to concentrate on your food instead. Indeed. I strongly recommend the Jagan fried rice (fried rice, Jamaican style), the jerk chicken, and pretty much everything on the menu. The food is simple, unpretentious, and delicious. Their fried plaintains are authentic and not smothered in brown sugar or anything gross like that. Also, they *will* deliver to Squirrel Hill, and presumably neighborhoods closer to uptown, such as Oakland. They are friendly folks; give them your business. They are listed in the phone book as "Jamaica restaurant."
Michael W. wrote: > > On a brighter note, I'd like to repeat my recommendation for Jamaica Jamaica > (5th Ave) uptown. It's an excellent Carribean restaurant (better than the > ones I've tried in NY and DC :-) ). The decor is ghastly (and sexist). Try > to concentrate on your food instead. > Well, most of the decor is Jamaica travel posters, several of which feature women in bikinis. I'm not sure if I'd call it sexist. But, then again, I haven't paid much attention to the decor. The food is wonderful. A group of us went there for lunch again yesterday; the jerk chicken was extra spicy (and very good). For those who don't know the area that well (or even for those who do: I had never heard that area called uptown until I first saw a post on Jamaica Jamaica, even though I grew up here): the Jamaica Jamaica is on 5th, about 4 blocks or so beyond Chatham Center (in the lower Hill). It's an easy walk from downtown. ****************************************************************** Jim Mann [email removed] Transarc Corporation The Gulf Tower, 707 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (412) 338-4442 More good baseball books appear in a single year than have been written about football in the past fifty years. The best football writers, like Dan Jenkins, have the good sense to write about something else most of the time. -- Tom Boswell, "99 Reasons Why Baseball Is Better than Football"