Two new restaurants recently opened on Bryant Street in Highland Park. One of them, "Nina", opened in the building that formerly housed "La Foret" I have not eaten there, but I have heard that they have a fixed menu for $19.95, and that the chef and manager are formerly of Hye Holde (sp?) and the Top of the Triangle respectively. The other new restaurant is called Cafe Flora and is in the building with the large mural painted on the side. I have eaten there once, and the food was excellent - much better than the food at Casbah where I had eaten just a few days before. The menu is a bit small, but the lamb was the best that I have had in Pittsburgh, and the swordfish was outstanding. The food was as good as Cafe Allegro on a good day and the proces were somewhat more reasonable.
Pittsburgh, PA
Two new restaurants in the East End
Nathan U. wrote: >Two new restaurants recently opened on Bryant Street in Highland Park. > >One of them, "Nina", opened in the building that formerly housed "La >Foret" I have not eaten there, but I have heard that they have a fixed >menu for $19.95, and that the chef and manager are formerly of Hye Holde > I found "Nina" to be excellent, not too expensive, well worth the visit and the price. I also found "Casbah" to be second rate and overpriced, worth neither the visit nor the price. Casbah seems only to excel in pretentiousness. Michael Perloff