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BELLA FRUTTETO. 2602 Brandt School Road, Wexford. 724-9407777. Adjacent orchards are one of the attractions at this comfortable, clubby suburban restaurant. The Italian-inspired menu features the fruits of these orchards in several apple-based dishes, including apple ravioli and apple bruschetta. Bella Frutteto combines an innovative but unfussy menu with friendly service and congenial seating. KE BIGHAM TAVERN. 321 Bigham St., Mount Washington. 412-4319313. This Mount Washington spot has all the pleasures of a local pub in a neighborhood best known for dress-up venues. It offers pub grub with a palate, such as burgers topped with capicola and green peppers. There is also a dizzying array of wings, including a red currypeanut, linking a classic American bar snack to the flavors of Asian street food. JE BRILLOBOX. 4104 Penn Ave., Bloomfield. 412-621-4900. A bar that serves well-designed retro chic with its whiskey and beer, Brillobox is (for now) the cool place to be. The menu isn’t lengthy, but it’s broad: Choose from bar staples or more inventive (and veggie-friendly) specialties such as Moroccan roastedvegetable stew or herbed polenta wedges. JE
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Dasonii Korean Bistro DASONII KOREAN BISTRO. 6520 Steubenville Pike, Robinson. 412-494-3311. Grilled meats and egg-topped dishes are among the specialties of this Korean restaurant, which also serves sushi. Dasonii offers the traditional Korean “BBQ” — thinly sliced marinated meat, grilled — as well as bibimbap, the savory hot pot combining
Gia Visto {PHOTO BY HEATHER MULL} noodles, vegetables and meat piled atop rice. Also worth trying: the stir-fried udon noodles, and short ribs. KE DOR-STOP. 1430 Potomac Ave., Dormont. 412-561-9320. This bustling, homey family-run venue is everything a breakfastand-lunch diner ought to be. The food is made from scratch: Alongside standards (eggs, pancakes, and hot and cold sandwiches) are also distinctive options, including German potato pancakes, ham off the bone and a sandwich tantalizingly called a “meatloaf melt.” J
tried-and-true breakfast-andlunch diner standards (with fun, musical names such as “Slide Trombone”). This is your stop for French toast, German apple pancake, fruit-filled pancakes, and savory options such as skillet fry-ups (eggs, home fries, cheese, sausage). J
JOSEPH TAMBELLINI RESTAURANT. 5701 Bryant St., Highland Park. 412-665-9000. The menu at this convivial white-linen Italian restaurant straddles the ultra-familiar — the five choices in the chicken and veal section are trattoria staples — and the more unusual. www. per GIA VISTO. 4366 Old There’s a strong a p pghcitym William Penn Highway, emphasis on fresh .co Monroeville. 412-374pasta and inventively 1800. The menu at this prepared seafood, such welcoming Italian restaurant as crusted Chilean sea bass ranges from simple classics to in an orange buerre blanc and elegant inventions. Whether it’s a berry marmalade. LE fried risotto appetizer enlivened with a elemental but sublime MEAT AND POTATOES. 649 red sauce, or a perfectly cooked Penn Ave., Downtown. 412salmon on a Mediterranean325-7007. This restaurant inspired bed of beans and combines several current trends, vegetables, the fare exhibits the including revisiting staples of the kitchen’s attention to detail. KF American pantry, the gastro-pub and nose-to-tail cooking, all in a IO. 300A Beverly Road, Mount lively Downtown space. Expect Lebanon. 412-440-0414. The everything from marrow bones revamped Io’s (formerly Iovino’s) to burgers, flatbreads and new simplified menu seems a chicken pot pie, as well as pots near-perfect distillation of tasty, of rhubarb jam and handtrendy and traditional. Some crafted cocktails. LE dishes are sophisticated classics, like pan-seared flounder NOODLEHEAD. 242 S. with fresh tomato and asparagus. Highland Ave., Shadyside. Others are ever-popular www.noodleheadpgh.com. In a workhorses like the BLT and funky atmosphere, Noodlehead fish tacos, or reinventions such offers an elemental approach as a Thai empanada or to the delightful street food Pittsburgh’s own “city chicken” of Thailand in which nothing (skewered pork). KE is over $9. A small menu offers soups, noodle dishes and a few JANICE’S SWEET HARMONY “snacks,” among them fried CAFÉ. 2820 Duss Ave., chicken and steamed buns with Ambridge. 724-266-8099. A pork belly. The freshly prepared musically themed diner offers dishes are garnished with fresh
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