Hey, we finally have Thai here on the south side! From the menu: "Thai Me Up: you're bound to like it". In about half an hour I'll know if the food is as good as the name. :-)
Indeed. It's not completely awful; I may occasionally go there again, just because it's down here. But there is much better Thai food elsewhere in the city, so no one should make a special effort to go to this place.
Think of it as the Domino's of Thai food. (Except that Domino's delivers.)
Mallorca is known for dinner, but they also do very good lunches. The fish dishes tend to be $12.95, which is pricy for lunch, but you get a lot of food and it's good. I specifically try to go there on the day before Yom Kippur. (They don't do lunch on Sunday so that trick didn't work this year.)
Sushi Two is like Sushi Too in Shadyside. I think it's good; I'm told there's better in the city, but this is here and it's good enough for me. :-)
The Pretzel Shop is good, cheap, grab-and-go food (no place to eat there). A "vegetarian pizza pretzel" is half a soft pretzel smeared with cream cheese and then cheddar cheese and assorted chopped veggies (tomatos, red peppers, chives, broccoli, olives, maybe something else). It costs a dollar. Two do me for lunch. They also have lots of other stuff, much of it meat wrapped in dough.
There is an Italian place at 22nd and Carson, the name of which I'm blanking on (begins with a "P") that is good. Prices are higher than the generic $5 fast-food lunch, but lower than Mallorca. The salad I usually get there is about $7, I think. (It's been a little while.) It looks like this would be a good place to go for dinner.
Roly Poly is good. Is that a chain? (I know you're getting one in your building.)
Not a restaurant, but the Giant Eagle salad bar is a place I frequently visit.
There is a vegetarian (or vegan?) organic earthy-crunchy place down a side street that I have been to once, and the food was pretty good. Prices were a little high (lunch was around $10). I'll have to ask a coworker what it was called. Like La Feria in Shadyside, the menu is limited and you should expect to order one of the two or three daily specials.
We have bunches of delis and similar places, and also bunches of bars. I have not explored them much.
The only Asian food I've found is Sushi Two, Thai Me Up, and Chan An (generic American Chinese), the last of which I no longer eat in after observing them cook. (I doubt it's dirty, but they do not wash out the woks or maintain one veggie-only, so you will eat meat if you go there.)
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Date: 2002-10-30 10:42 am (UTC)Re: verdict
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Date: 2002-10-30 11:30 am (UTC)Think of it as the Domino's of Thai food. (Except that Domino's delivers.)
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Date: 2002-10-30 12:22 pm (UTC)I hate it when a restaurant's name is better than its food.
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Date: 2002-10-30 01:31 pm (UTC)Mallorca is known for dinner, but they also do very good lunches. The fish dishes tend to be $12.95, which is pricy for lunch, but you get a lot of food and it's good. I specifically try to go there on the day before Yom Kippur. (They don't do lunch on Sunday so that trick didn't work this year.)
Sushi Two is like Sushi Too in Shadyside. I think it's good; I'm told there's better in the city, but this is here and it's good enough for me. :-)
The Pretzel Shop is good, cheap, grab-and-go food (no place to eat there). A "vegetarian pizza pretzel" is half a soft pretzel smeared with cream cheese and then cheddar cheese and assorted chopped veggies (tomatos, red peppers, chives, broccoli, olives, maybe something else). It costs a dollar. Two do me for lunch. They also have lots of other stuff, much of it meat wrapped in dough.
There is an Italian place at 22nd and Carson, the name of which I'm blanking on (begins with a "P") that is good. Prices are higher than the generic $5 fast-food lunch, but lower than Mallorca. The salad I usually get there is about $7, I think. (It's been a little while.) It looks like this would be a good place to go for dinner.
Roly Poly is good. Is that a chain? (I know you're getting one in your building.)
Not a restaurant, but the Giant Eagle salad bar is a place I frequently visit.
There is a vegetarian (or vegan?) organic earthy-crunchy place down a side street that I have been to once, and the food was pretty good. Prices were a little high (lunch was around $10). I'll have to ask a coworker what it was called. Like La Feria in Shadyside, the menu is limited and you should expect to order one of the two or three daily specials.
We have bunches of delis and similar places, and also bunches of bars. I have not explored them much.
The only Asian food I've found is Sushi Two, Thai Me Up, and Chan An (generic American Chinese), the last of which I no longer eat in after observing them cook. (I doubt it's dirty, but they do not wash out the woks or maintain one veggie-only, so you will eat meat if you go there.)