Weak PGH Rest. Scene

 Someone wrote:
 >Someone wrote:
 >
 >> A question:  what is the hottest restaurant in town?  The funkiest,
 >> newest, hippest, best restaurant going?  Where would any of you take a
 >> visiting older sibling from New York, or an executive in town from LA, or
 >> someone equally urban and accustommed to good food?  Assume cost is no
 >> object.
 >
 >I'm a bit at a loss here, since I've never equated "funkiest, newest,
 >or hippest" with best. My choices for best usually aren't any of
 >these. But my choice for taking folks (at least those who like German
 >food) is Max's. But, Max's is just very good. It is not funky, new, or
 >hip (thank God).

 Max's is very good, but if you like German, an even better choice is
 the Kleiner Deutschmann on Route 28 in Springdale.  Try the Jaegerschitzel;
 it's excellent.

 -- PTD --

 (And, of course, if you want to be a bit more casual, the Brewery serves
 reasonable German food, and outstanding beer.)

 Excerpts from netnews.pgh.food: 10-Mar-95 Re: Weak PGH Rest. Scene
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 > And there is
 > very good food to be had in Pittsburgh.  I know because I've had
 > it and I'm one of the most critical diners around.

 So list the places already.

 Michael

 (Here are some:
 Spice Island Tea Room
 Sushi Kim
 Swartz's Bagels (he says, risking being hoist on his own sort of petard).
 El dolce.
 Juno Trattoria (but not after 9pm, when they "break down" the antipasto cart).
 Davio.
 The Cajun sandwich place in South Hills Village mall (that ought to stun
 some of you into stupified silence).
 New Dumpling house (and Yen's in Greenfield isn't too foul either).
 Kimchee fritters from outside the korean grocer's in the strip on
 saturday morning.

 not an exhaustive list, of course).
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 <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/~mjw/">Michael Witbrock.
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