I can't speak for the North Hills Arrostoria, but the one in McMurray (South Hills) has good, moderately priced Italian food. The trademark sauce is spicy (maybe too spicy for some), and they serve some interesting dishes. My favorite is the ravioli -- one huge ravioli! They also serve a good, heavy bread, and they give you a little loaf to take home. Recommended!
Pittsburgh, PA
Tuscan Inn/Arrostaria????
Bill T. wrote: > I can't speak for the North Hills Arrostoria, but the one in McMurray > (South Hills) has good, moderately priced Italian food. HAD good, moderately-priced Italian food. Sadly, they are no longer open. I'm not exactly sure why -- I don't know what kind of business they had at lunchtime, but they were always pretty crowded at dinner- time. Their food may have been _too_ moderately-priced. > The trademark > sauce is spicy (maybe too spicy for some), and they serve some > interesting dishes. My favorite is the ravioli -- one huge ravioli! They > also serve a good, heavy bread, and they give you a little loaf to take > home. Recommended! They stopped giving away the bread a few months before they closed. I'm pretty sure the North Hills restaurant is still open, but I don't know whether or not they give away the bread. Nick
Michael S. wrote: > Does anyone have any information about these two North Hills restaurants? > Tuscan Inn (or is it Tuscany?) is on Wildwood between Rte. 8 and North > Park. Arrostaria is on Rte. 8 just north of Wildwood. I've been past > both several times and am thinking about stopping in one this weekend. I had a very enjoyable meal at Tuscan Inn back in the early fall. We went on a Wednesday night; there was a acoustic guitarist/singer who provided the music for the evening. The place is far more casual than I would have guessed by the review in Pittsburgh magazine. It's like a big old house whose first floor was turned into a restaurant. The main room has a bar in the front center, an open kitchen in the rear, and additional seating (other than the main room) in little alcoves off to the side. Kind of a rustic feel to it. It's been long enough that I only have two primary memories of the place. One, the presentation was quite nice. Two, the grilled tuna I ordered was done the way my dad likes it: just a bit pink in the center. Oh actually, I remember liking the bread too. It was either foccacia or something very close to it. I keep meaning to go back, but that north in the North Hills is kinda out of the way. Beth Mazur | "The growth in online subscribers will continue to be MAYA Design | strong, but there will be underlying high turnover Pittsburgh PA | rates as users who are underwhelmed by content on the !Go Steelers! | Web cancel and turn on their TVs." -- Sr VP at International Data, http://www.maya.com/Local/mazur/ Investor's Business Daily 1/10/96