It’s officially Restaurant Week in Pittsburgh, with over 80 local restaurants offering special prix fixe deals from August 10 through August 16.
Most restaurants are offering a three-course prix fixe options for $25.15, $30.15, or $35.15, though there are some deals to be found for $20.15.
We’ve been scouring the RW menus from participating restaurants, and have picked our top ten dishes that we can’t wait to try this week.
Good Food Pittsburgh’s Top 10 Summer Restaurant Week Picks:
Habitat: $35.15 Three-Course Dinner Restaurant Week is all about trying new things, and trust us – if you haven’t had the Smoked Duck Heart Tartar, served with black garlic crostini and maple bourbon mustard, you’re missing out.
Eighty Acres Kitchen & Bar: $30.15 Three-Course Dinner Our pick on Eighty Acres’ fresh, farm-to-table menu is their second-course Grilled Peaches dish, served with wild arugula, shaved Parmesan and soba.
Root 174: $34.15 Three-Course Dinner The menu for Root 174’s three-course vegan or meat dinner changes daily, but what we’re really excited about is their additional featured cocktail: Palate Punch, made with Maker’s 46, Elisir Novasalus, Cardamaro, Vino Amaro and house cherry liquor rinse.
Kaleidoscope Café: $20.15 Two-Course Meal You’re pretty much guaranteed to love anything that you have at this Lawrenceville hotspot, but our favorite Restaurant Week dish is an elegant, vegetarian option. The Mediterranean Vegetable Roulade is made with spinach, eggplant, zucchini, onion and white bean puree, rolled in a puff pastry with roasted red pepper coulis and topped with feta and a grape tomato salad – and it’s one of the best things we’ve eaten in a long time.
San Lorenzo Ristorante: $25.15 Three-Course Dinner We can’t wait to try San Lorenzo’s melt-in-your-mouth Gnocchi Bolognese, one of our picks for one of the best pasta dishes in Pittsburgh.
Bigham Tavern: $20.15 Four-Course Dinner We only have five words for you: Bacon Chocolate Chipotle Ice Cream. It’s their special Restaurant Week dessert, and it tops off a pork-centric four-course menu for a really great price.
NOLA on the Square: $35.15 Three-Course Dinner What are we going to be ordering at this New Orleans-style downtown staple? Their country-fried chicken, red velvet waffles, pecan cream cheese gravy, crispy kale and bourbon maple syrup dish is just the right amount of wrong.
Butcher and the Rye: $35.15 Three-Course Dinner Butcher and the Rye’s elegant three-course offerings are all out of this world, but our pick is their Chilled Corn Soup, with roasted cherry tomatoes, jalapeno emulsion and polenta croutons.
Matteo’s: $25.15 Three-Course Dinner Our pick from Matteo’s options-galore three-course dinner menu? We’re going with their Lemon-and-Herb Crusted Cod, served with a cold quinoa salad, the perfect light entrée for a hot summer night.
Pallantia Tapas y Paella: $30.15 Multi-Course Dinner The just-opened Shadyside tapas restaurant is already getting some great buzz, and for good reason – it’s delicious. For Restaurant Week, they’re offering a number of their tapas to try, and we suggest making sure to sample their Pasta Fresca dish, with chorizo, baby kale, arugula and tomato.
You can find all of the Restaurant Week restaurants and menus – and make reservations – on the event page.
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