Tag: restaurants
member name: Dave Sandborg
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June 11, 2008 10:19 PM EDT --
Those who have known me for a while don't consider me much of a "breakfast person". I rarely eat it of my own volition. I used to profess that I didn't care for breakfast . . .
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December 08, 2009 11:09 PM EST --
For quite some time I've been fascinated by the Soba Lounge on Ellsworth, about a half a mile from our house. For years I've looked into its lounge window and thought its comfy-looking leather . . .
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January 04, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of breakfasts. However there are times when a good breakfast really hits the spot. Oftentimes this coincides with when we take a trip to . . .
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September 17, 2009 12:18 AM EDT --
It had been the talk of the town for some time that Pittsburgh was going to get one of the few US installations of a Hofbräuhaus. I had been eager to visit, to see how it would compare to my . . .
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January 27, 2008 09:09 PM EST --
This past summer, we got wind of a restaurant north of Pittsburgh set in a bookstore, known as the Bookworks Café. When the book store closes, they set up tables among the shelves and serve food . . .
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May 21, 2009 10:45 PM EDT --
Pittsburgh's North Side is host to Penn Brewery, an early craft brewing institution in the area. There have been persistent rumors that it may be closing, so we wanted to make sure to get a visit . . .
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October 03, 2009 03:57 PM EDT --
I can be perfectly happy with a modest meal but some occasions call for something more elaborate. On one such occasion this past year Janna and I decided to try Eleven, one of Pittsburgh's . . .
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October 17, 2009 05:05 PM EDT --
Sometimes I think there are simply too many restaurants to visit in our area, particularly when you consider those we want to revisit along with those we have not yet gotten to. We typically go . . .
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August 16, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
I have already written several reviews in which I espouse the joys of restaurants that offer a variety of small dishes, to be ordered in combination. For that reason, I was intrigued when I found out . . .
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January 02, 2008 10:50 PM EST --
Diners are emblematic of a certain kind of Americana. Ritter's is not just this, but also a well-known institution of Pittsburgh. In fact it was recently used in a Pittsburgh Pirates video . . .
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January 20, 2008 09:07 PM EST --
I have met many of my friends through my roller coaster hobby. As we've all developed as people, many of us have picked up a new hobby, beer drinking. Thus on our coaster trips we often . . .
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October 08, 2008 08:38 PM EDT --
In another Pittsburgh restaurant review , I talked about D's, my favorite place to get hot dogs. I can't say I have a favorite burger place but if there is any contender, it is Tessaro's . . .
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August 24, 2009 10:24 PM EDT --
Our burgeoning neighborhood has spawned yet another promising place to eat. On the way to another restaurant some weeks ago we happened to pass by a new crepe shop called Paris66. It hadn't . . .
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September 06, 2009 01:30 PM EDT --
Though I eat out for lunch often, I don't usually feel the need to do reviews of my downtown haunts. Many times I just go to the standard fast food stands that everybody knows about. Some of the other . . .
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October 08, 2009 08:51 PM EDT --
We have many favorite restaurants around Pittsburgh. If I had unlimited time and money I'd visit them all more often than we do. But given that we have to make choices, we often focus on a . . .
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October 28, 2009 09:55 PM EDT --
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Though a lot of new restaurants have opened in our area lately, some may be having difficulty in staying afloat. Less than a year after it opened, Richard Chen-- which I reviewed previously . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
Penn Circle South in the East Liberty district of Pittsburgh, once considered a blighted area, has recently become something of a restaurant row that we have been exploring this year. One of the . . .
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November 20, 2006 09:22 PM EST --
Thai food is obviously one of my favorite cuisines. I've written reviews about a couple of Thai restaurants in the Pittsburgh area already. In one of them I mentioned another Thai restaurant, Typhoon, . . .
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April 15, 2007 09:46 PM EDT --
Were it not for Janna's coworker, there are many restaurants in the Pittsburgh area that we would likely never have tried. A few months ago we learned from her of the Aspinwall Grill, which . . .
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May 15, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
I've mentioned how we've taken the advice of a coworker of Janna several times to find new places to eat around Pittsburgh. So far she's not led us wrong. We were in the mood . . .
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