Pittsburgh Restaurant Week’s winter session kicks off today, with over 60 area restaurants offering special prix fixe menus from January 11 through January 17. Most restaurants are featuring a three-course prix fixe option for $35.16, though lunch options are available for as little as $16.16.
With so many options for Restaurant Week, where should you go? Our list of the 10 dishes that you absolutely need to try is a good place to start – if you can get reservations.
Good Food Pittsburgh’s Top 10 Restaurant Week Picks:
The Twisted Frenchman: $35.16 Two-Course Dinner If you’re able to make it into the Twisted Frenchman, chef Andrew Garbarino’s French-inspired modernist restaurant, congratulations – you’re the envy of lots of other Pittsburgh diners. Their RW menu features Rohan Duck, house-made Agnolotti and foie gras, but we’re most looking forward to the Beet and Goat Cheese Salad, a bright, delicate plate topped with Banyuls vinaigrette.
Prairie: $30.16 Three-Course Dinner One of the newest restaurants on the list, Prairie has a Restaurant Week menu chockfull of down-home treats… but we’re crazy about their sweets. Our picks are the Bourbon Bread Pudding, with a sweet bourbon sauce, and their truly excellent chocolate chip pecan cookies, served with vanilla bean ice cream.
Paris 66: $35.16 Three-Course Dinner Now that it finally is beginning to feel like winter outside, we’re craving hearty comfort food, like Paris 66’s Bouef Bourguignon, made with slow-cooked beef in a house red wine sauce, with carrots, potatoes, onions, bacon and mushrooms.
Nine on Nine: $16.16 Lunch Duo One of the best deals for Restaurant Week, Nine on Nine is offering a $16.16 lunch duo special, featuring their tomato bisque, paired with either a smoked pork belly sandwich, or their lobster club – both solid mid-day choices. For dinner, they’re serving up a $32.16 two-course prix fixe, with a Lamb and Ricotta Gnocchi option that has us swooning.
Union Pig & Chicken: $25.16 Three-Course Dinner Union Pig & Chicken is rolling out a special Hawaiian Barbecue menu for Restaurant Week, with a poke bowl appetizer and a Restaurant Week-exclusive Millie’s Homemade tiki-inspired ice cream dessert. But the main course is what we’re most looking forward to: It’s a Not-So-Classic Hawaiian Plate, featuring coffee-smoked pork shoulder, St. Louis ribs with pineapple barbecue sauce, macaroni salad, and coconut kimchi. Plus, for an extra $10, you can get Tiki cocktail pairings with your meal.
Silk Elephant: $20.16 Tapas Trio Our pick? Squirrel Hill’s Silk Elephant has one of the best vegetarian options on any Restaurant Week menu, their coconut-crusted croquettes, served over a miso green curry sauce.
Spoon: $35.16 Three-Course Dinner Spoon always features a solid selection of RW menu items on their three-course prix fixe, but we’ll be ordering their Atlantic Salmon, served with a carrot-ginger puree, crab spring roll, haricot verts and Thai basil salad. And for dessert? Don’t miss their Spoon Bar, with milk chocolate nougat frozen mousse and semi-sweet chocolate pudding.
Chaz & Odette: $35.16 Three-Course Dinner Bloomfield’s Chaz & Odette is making its Restaurant Week debut with a stellar $35.16 three-course prix fixe dinner, featuring one of our favorite Italian dishes – a simple, beautifully-made Cavatappi Pomodoro.
Bill’s Bar and Burger: $29.16 Three-Course Dinner Sometimes, you just want a classic burger. And you’ll find a really good one on Bill’s Bar and Burger RW menu, with their Bill’s Burger entrée, featuring their sweet-and-spicy special sauce.
Trapuzzano’s Italian Chophouse: $20.16 Three-Course Dinner A three-course dinner for just over $20? We’re sold. And this one offers Braised Short Ribs, served over mushroom sage risotto, one of the most decadent, special-occasion options on any RW menu, and just oh-so-good.
You can find all of the participating restaurants, along with their RW menus, here.
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