Pittsburgh's Best Martini 2007

A first-rate feast for city-dwellers.

Reviews:

• “Perfection”
• “Great for lunch.”
• “Great restaurant especially before a show”
• “Use your entertainment card”
• “Nice Upscale Restaurant”

Tips: The restaurant marks up bottles only $10 over cost, making better wines affordable and allowing diners to taste wines that might be prohibitive in other eateries of this caliber.

The Carlton
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USDA prime beef, elegant tableside service and mammoth martinis.

Reviews:

• “Great Service but So-So Steaks”
• “Great special occasion restaurant”
• “A Must for any steak lover in the burgh”
• “Good food, overpriced…”
• “Simply the Best”

Tips: Rare means rare: If you don’t want a cool, red center, move to medium.

Morton’s – The Steakhouse
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Enjoy a late-night bite or a ’50s cocktail at this retro East Liberty bar.

Reviews:

• “blah”
• “Top style bar on the outskirts of town”
• “my new favorite bar”

Tips: This is the perfect place to down a gorgeously smooth classic cocktail—bartenders mix a mean Manhattan.

Kelly’s bar and lounge

Reviews:

• “More’”
• “PGH’S BEST SPOT”
• “Exceptional cuisine, elegant ambiance, gracious service”

More’ Restaurant

A family-owned business harkening back to the days of smooth, Rat Pack-style social clubs.

Reviews:

• “great late night spot”
• “BEST FROZEN HAMBURGER SINCE 1966. Still in the freezer. Still $75.00”
• “The most relaxing bar in Pittsburgh”
• “Kicked in the head.”

Le Mardi Gras

Good eats and a smooth club scene equals three floors of relaxation and enjoyment.

Reviews:

• “Great dining, hip vibe, neighborhood feel”
• “A good place to eat/drink/talk with friends.”
• “AMAZING”
• “Definitely Recommended”
• “One of my favorites.”

Tips: Drinks are stirred supremely at Soba, including everything from Long Island Iced Teas to gin and tonics to a dry, dry martini.

Soba Lounge

Station Square’s premiere dance destination gives you quadruple the nightclubs for the price of one.

Reviews:

• “There are better clubs out there”
• “Decent Place”
• “WORST CLUB IN PIITTSBURGH”
• “How to get kicked out of Matrix”
• “Terrible.”

Tips: The potent Tropical Tango—pineapple juice and vodka spiked with the French liqueur Chambord—is this nightclub’s limb-loosener of choice.

Matrix

Locals flock for a selection of daily specials at the rustic 160-year-old cabin that offers a full-bar and outdoor deck.

Reviews:

• “Log Cabin Experience”
• “Worth the wait.”
• “It worth the wait”
• “Like a hide-away”
• “The best”

Log Cabin Inn

As elegantly cool as any restaurant or bistro in New York or Paris.

Reviews:

• “best kept secret in pittsburgh”
• “best drinks around, awesome bartenders”
• “Awesome daytime bartender, terrible management”
• “Incredibly, unbelievably overrated”
• “nice aesthetics, TERRIBLE bartenders”

Tips: With its sleek design, barely there lighting and sound-absorbing brick walls, Olive or Twist is perfect for a date.

Olive or Twist

A Ross Street stalwart, this place has always been successful.

Tips: Besides the usual chardonnays and cabernet sauvignons, the Common Plea wine cellar also features special selections, big bottles, first growths, gran crus, and older vintages.

Common Plea Restaurant

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