text: When visiting Pittsburgh earlier this month we were searching for a place to get a small quick lunch on a sitdown restaurant Since we were sightseeing Steeltowns Strip we decided to try Kaya The restaurant looked decent First the service was inadequate fromt he first moment Our waitress was a bit rude walked away in the middle of our order of drinks and then did not come back with even the ice water until mins later We ordered a fried appetizer a take on an Indian dish of which name I do not recall and it was ok tastingsomething a TGIF could pull off My husband ordered a seared tuna salad I believe and I got the jerk chicken salad His dish was on the bland side but edible My jerk chicken salad was a far cry from anything edible The chicken was so salty had so much dry herbs and pepper that all I tasted was salted herbs and then fire from the pepper The dressing on the greens underneath the chicken was bitter and the mango salad that came on the side was not at all fresh I was starving so I managed to eat a third of it but then had to stop because it was beginning to really make me gag I obviously refused the spacey waitress offer to get the rest of the meal wrapped up If you like boring food trying to pass for something exotic then this is your place One other thing I can say is that the problem with service was not only a problem for us A couple sitting near us got up and left after not even getting menus for the first or mins and another family had to actually get up from the table to go get the waitress on the other side of the restaurant This was not a busy Sat so I doubt that lapses in service like this can be blamed on a busy hour In general our food experience in Pittsburgh was just bad I do hope that the city has more to offer than what we had the displeasure of trying