Karen L.
Yelp
I gotta admit -- I was skeptical about this place. I'm not usually a fan of Karen Carrier, but our UYE (shout-out to William and Joelle!) was fabulous!
Our server, MC, was great -- lots of patience with me continuing to fail to actually read the drink menu, and well informed on the current menu (which was on its second day). The Green Line cocktail is amazing! I downed the first one in record time and was working on my second when it started to hit me, which is exactly how I like to get drunk.
They've just started an American menu (which seems like a bit of a cop-out to me -- did they run out of foreign countries?), so we were encouraged to provide feedback on what could be improved. Which, I kind of like, because they actually care what I think, but kind of don't, because, well, I won't be back on this menu, so why am I working the kinks out for someone else?
The deviled eggs were good, but I don't understand the drizzle of olive oil. It didn't add to the taste at all, but just made them greasy. The boyfriend enjoyed his fried chicken livers, though the fried flavor overwhelmed the liver for me. The chicken biscuits had way too much tarragon in the sauce -- I couldn't taste the sesame or pecan, and in fact, since the biscuit was crunchy, the texture of the chicken blended right into that. However, the Pittsburgh ribeye burger was amazing, and the s'mores dessert special was a yummy take on the campfire classic.
Now, the kitschy decor, I can take or leave. Drinking out of a mason jar feels a little "hipster wedding five years ago," personally, but it didn't detract from the experience nearly as much as...the font on the menu. Some awful combination of upper and lower case, and just completely illegible. I actually had to ask the server to translate some items! Plus, I don't really get the name, and our receipt still says Do Restaurant on it -- guess they didn't update their POS!
That being said, I would definitely return here, for dinner, drinks or a midnight snack. It was pretty reasonably priced too -- $56 for the two of us, including a couple of $9 cocktails. I'm sure the company had something to do with it, but I had a great time here!