We went to the Cultural Street Fair on Saturday, and decided to drop by the Seventh Street Grille. First, we were extremely impressed by the beer selection (even if they haven't taken down their bottles of Celis, which you can no longer get in Pennsylvania). It's definitely the best beer selection in downtown Pittsburgh (Kaya might have a better selection but it's up in the Strip) and it will be added to the beer in Pittsburgh page (<a href="http://www.transarc.com/~jmann/pghbeer.html">) I tried their shrimp fritters which were very good. So we went back later for dinner. Great French onion soup and fine bread. Jim got the duck and enjoyed it. However, I got the garlic chicken and was very disappointed. It tasted microwaved (not grilled) and had little garlic. Compounding the problem was that it hadn't been cooked through the first time, so I had to send it back. The waitress was very apologetic. If it hadn't been a very busy Saturday night, I probably should have asked to speak to the manager. Other than the chicken, the rest of the meal was fine, the service was good, and we had a nice evening. We'll probably go back and will just avoid the chicken in the future. Laurie Mann * [email removed] * http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html *A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. --Chuckles* **************ServiceWare Database Wrangler and CyberLibrarian****************
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Seventh Street Grille
I also tried Seventh Street Grille for the first time this weekend. I went with a large crowd of people on Saturday night, after the dance performance at the Benedum. They have the advantage of having their kitchen being open until 11pm, and you don't need reservations that late. For starters we had grilled portobello mudhrooms (delicious), artichoke with tomato (ok), and mussels - one with a white wine sauce and one with a marinara sauce - the marinara was good but the white wine sauce was excellent and there was plenty to soak up with bread after the mussels were but a fading memory. For the main course my S/O and I had a grilled duck salad (delicious) and a veal dish (nicely prepared but the meat could have been of better quality). Various other dishes were tried by others, including pepper steak and salmon, and everybody seemed to enjoy what they had. Their deserts were so-so, I'd pass next time, but the espresso was very good. The average cost for everything, including plenty of Oktoberfest beer, tax and tip, was $29 per person. You could weasily get away with spening about $15 for dinner if you wanted to. The service was also pretty good, although the place was empty at that hour so your mileage may vary. Summary: 12 thumbs up! Julio __________________________________________________________________________ Julio K. Rosenblatt Carnegie Mellon University [email removed] Robotics Institute Phone: (412) 268-6880 5000 Forbes Ave. Fax: (412) 268-5571 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++ ++++ if you agree copy these 3 sentences in your own sig ++++ ++++ more info: http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ++++