Article 259 of pgh.food: Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1991 11:40:22 -0400 >From Bill Thomas Subject: Re: amateur restaurant reviews OK, so I'm responding to my own message. Everyone who enjoys this bboard will find similar action on hobbies.food.dining, on Carnegie Mellon's andrew system. Since my knowledge of andrew, and networking in general, is still shallow (how the heck do you ftp?), I don't know if everyone on this bboard can access those on andrew. As a result, I'm posting a few excerpts from hobbies.food.dining. But first, a disclaimer. The following editing job is not intended as an objective journalistic exercise, but merely a lazy attempt to cut some stuff out of reviews and throw it over here, so don't take offense if I left something out. Here goes: >Another good place for breakfast is The Good Earth in the Mt. Lebanon >Galleria. You can avoid some of the heavy Liberty Tubes traffic if you >take the Fort Pitt tunnels out of town and then take the Banksville Road >exit to wind you into the South Hills. Check a map first, though, as it >can be confusing. If you're in the South Hills on a Sunday morning, be >sure to stop by Border Bookstore for complimentary coffee and yummy >pastries. >best place in the area that we know for Mexican is the Fajita Grill out >by Century III Mall. Extremely authentic, very tasty and reasonably >priced. Best fajitas since we left Dallas. >Our latest enjoyable discovery has been the Italian Oven in Shadyside. >I knew when my Italian boss and my Polish friend *both* kept raving >about it that I'd probably found a winner, and I was right. Good >salads, lovely crunchy gourmet pizzas, excellent pasta and dinner for >two can be easily brought in for under $15. >I went to Mallorca a few weeks ago. >It is worth checking out, IMHO. > >I went with a friend, and the tab came to $28 per person, >including tip. We each had a glass of wine, we split an >appetizer, and each had an entree and coffee. > >The food was pretty good, and there was a *lot* of it. >(The appetizer was completely unecessary). The paella >didn't seem all that exciting- but then I don't know >much about paella. As rice and shellfish go, it was fine. >The service was freindly, although uneven. The dining room >was sort of funky/elegant, and somewhat crowded. >A little known but pretty good restaurant is the place that does >mongolian barbequeue, about 20-40 minutes away from CMU by car. If >you don't know what mongolian barbequeue is, well, it's an all you can >eat sort of dining experience. You go in and pick up a bowl, and then >go to this area that has all sorts of food lying out on it. There are >generally four meats and lots of different vegetables and sauces. You >then go to this huge metal slab in the center of the restaurant and >hand your bowl to a cook, who dumps it on the hot metal slab and >starts cooking it. In a little while, he puts it into another bowl >and hands it back to you. You get to pick your own ingredients and >you eat as much as you want, and it's really good. >Okay, let's arrange a run for Mongolian BBQ. I know how to get there, >but can't remember the name. (Head up McKnight road and keep going. >And going, and going... Eventually, it's on the left (eventually as >in past Sun, past where the road turns to head east)). > >I've had Mongolian BBQ at four places in three cities: Pgh, DC (one >mid-range and one high-priced), and Boston. I think the one in Pgh >tastes the best of the four (they seem to be more vigilant about >keeping the meat fresh and properly frozen prior to cooking). Article 360 of pgh.food: Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1992 08:07:51 -0500 >From Frank Eugene Kietzke Subject: Re: Mongolian BBQ The Mongolian BBQ that everyone seems to almost remember on McKnight Road / Rt. 19 N / Perry Highway is the Liu Garden, 10500 Perry Highway, Wexford. Phone 935-1880. They have a "regular" menu as well as the all you can eat mongolian BBQ which comes with a nice sides/salad bar. (If you go away hungry, it is your own fault.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Frank Kietzke | That was the "stun" setting, this is not.| |Carnegie-Mellon University | Lt. Commander Data, | |Data Communications | STNG, The Ensigns of Command. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | I can hardly speak for myself, let alone for CMU Data Communications | -------------------------------------------------------------------------