Malcolm B. wrote: >My wife and I would like to find a nice romantic >restaurant to go to for our 1st anniversary - in or near >Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, our anniversary falls on a Sunday >(ok, this Sunday...) and so many restaurants we'd like >to try (for example, Hyeholde Restaurant) are closed. >Can anyone help us out? > > Thanks! > Malcolm Bauer > [email removed] Malcolm: I'd recommend the Stone Mansion Inn, up in Franklin Park. My boyfriend and I went there because I dared him to take me somewhere fancy, and it lived up to both decor and food quality. It's easy to get to: take 279N to 79N to Wexford Exit, make a right. It'll be about half a mile or so on your right. They take reservations and apparently seat you in certain rooms depending on your dress (that's what a friend told us). Don't know if they're open on Sundays, but definitely worth a phone call to check. Enjoy! Susan
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Pittsburgh: Romantic Restauants
Excerpts from netnews.pgh.food: 28-Sep-95 Re: Pittsburgh: Romantic Re.. Byron Gottfried@civeng1 (1012) > I'd recommend the Stone Mansion Inn, up in Franklin Park. I'd UNrecommend them... > They take reservations and apparently seat you in certain rooms depending > on your dress (that's what a friend told us). ... for exactly this reason. This place used to be called The Gryphon, which was a "fine dining for all people" place. They advertised that you could go in a tux or blue jeans, it didn't matter. When we went back after their change they'd become a snooty nose-in-the-air "fine" dining pretend-class establishment. We weren't in jeans but we weren't "dressed", so we were told we'd have to sit in the bar. Which, of course, has no no-smoking area. To paraphrase Miss Manners, you don't demand class, you just have it. In that area, I would recommend instead The Kauffman House, in Zelienople. They have excellent food, homemade breads and the like, nice atmostphere, friendly yet unobtrusive service, and they could care less how you're dressed [past the shoes & shirt stage, of course]. Truly fine dining. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Esther Filderman [email removed] System Mangler Pittsburgh SuperDuperComputing Center BLF -- FREE THE BURRITOS!