Pittsburgh Culinary Delights

Sunday:
- Zenith Cafe. We went here for their famous vegetarian brunch served up inside an antique store and using antique items for the table settings. What a find! The food was both inexpensive and excellent. For just ten dollars you got coffee or tea, an entree and unlimited buffet. I had chocolate almond tea and delicious strawberry French toast with a selection of vegetable and fruit salads and cakes from the buffet. The lavendar Earl Grey and blackberry cake was amazing!

Monday:
- Oakmont Bakery. The display counter must be ten meters long! They have every sort of baked good you could possibly want from a bakery. We bought six of their famous paczki along with a loaf of scrumptious looking cinnamon raisin bread that we'll use for French toast on Saturday.
- Grasso Rossi. We had lunch at this little café. I had a portabella panini with oil and vinegar dipping sauce and Ruffles ridged potato chips. But that part was just an excuse to get to dessert: spaghetti ice cream! It's a bit unsettling how much it really looks like a serving of pasta.
- Spice Island. Yummy Thai food at this place. I had a coconut soda and sampled Roy's ginger beer. Both good. For dinner I had a shrimp and broccoli dish in a red garlic sauce. It was very good but not spicy as I had been expecting. I also sampled Roy's tofu curry dish. Also good, plus very spicy.

Tuesday:
- Coco Cafe. In Lawrenceville. Nicole had been here before so we used it as a backup when The Quiet Storm was closed. I had a black bean burger that hit the spot and Nicole had an avocado omelette that was reportedly excellent.

Wednesday:
- Google. For lunch with Roy. The chef made Indian food. I had brown rice, curry shrimp, okra and curry black-eyed peas. There was also a salad bar, a sandwich bar and a dessert bar complete with big blocks of chocolate that you chipped pieces off with a pick and hammer. The ginger beer was nice and spicy.
- The Milk Shake Factory. Mentioned in previous post.
- Hyeholde Restaurant. A fancy restaurant out in the countryside complete with valet parking. We went here for Nicole's birthday dinner. The restaurant was built in the 1930s using the timbers from several three hundred-year-old barns. It had a pleasant intimate atmosphere with several different small cozy dining areas. Both the staff and the food were very nice. I had the sherry bisque (delicious) followed by the vegetarian feast which consisted of tofu with cauliflower and various kinds of squash and grains accompanied by a red sauce. For dessert I chose the raspberry brioche bread pudding.