text: Cures been a tough weekend reservation since it opened at the beginning of this year That is because it is very small and very popular After failed attempts I was finally able to get a reservation for this past Sat night Cure is located right on the corner of th and Butler in the dodgy end of Lawrenceville There is street parking only no valet The space is very small but warm When we first walked in we heard Vampire Weekend blasting over the speakers so I figured this would be a good place Speaking of music the other reviewers are correct that it is very loud which may or may not be your thing We heard a ton of great bands which included Modest Mouse and The Clash I actually liked this because if you have good tunes at least play them at a volume where people can hear them Some places like to say they have good tunes but do not play them loud enough for anyone to hear them I am looking at you Salt of the EarthnnCure is BYOB only so I brought bottles of beer Dogfish Head Noble Rot and Great Divide Yeti OakAged Imperial Stout One of the waiters was very intrigued by the Noble Rot so I poured him some to try will be important later We started off with the salumi for to get an introduction to the restaurants specialty of cured meats The plate consisted of crostini with lardo mordatella fancy bologna duck speck chicken rillettes chorizo and cornichon pork scraps It was all tasty if you like this kind of stuff and not everyone does but the plate was very small It was really a salumi for and at seemed a little steepnnFor an entree I had the duck breast and leg It was a very small plate Although delicious there were only small pieces of duck breast and most of the dish was leg confit I would have loved to have had more of the breast and at this also seemed steep for the portion sizennWe finished up with a cheese plate again rather small and the chocolate souffle cake which did not really have anything to do with chocolate souffle and was also small Both were very good but again the portions were smallnnI think Cure has a lot of potential The food is extremely flavorful but the portions are just slightly too small for the current price point I am not saying Cure should be giving out huge plates of food but for I would like to have more than small pieces of duck breast nnBYOB has it is own unique appeal and I think that Cure has immediately become the best BYOB place in Pittsburgh The corkage is only As a final point I was slightly miffed when I saw that I was charged corkage for the beer that we shared with a waiter I am always happy to share great beer with anyone but it would have been a classy move to comp us the corkage for that bottle