re: Need some Pittsburgh recs ...

Visited a friend there last month, ate at Meat and Potatoes (you need a reservation and they are apparantly hard to get) but the food was really good. Prices were really reasonable for what we ate. Ate lunch at Fatheads, really really large sandwiches and they brew their own beer. Ate lunch at Gaucho for Argentinian food. There is a Hofbräuhaus Pittsburgh with a really large beer garden. Butcher and Rye (we has reservations for this one also) was really good, but I was pretty drunk and missed some of the finer points of dinner.

Everything we ate was really good, FYI- they are big beer fans and like to put eggs on most sandwiches.

Let me know if you have more questions...