text: We had family in to Pittsburgh for the very first time from Indiana The trip was planned for months and being from Pittsburgh myself I wanted them to experience Mt Washington and the incredible view as well as what I believed would be one of the best restaurants in Pittsburgh We were a party of and made our reservation for Saturday night September st at pm in order to not be in the busiest time period We arrived at minutes to and were rudely treated at first by the valet parking attendant as the entry to the valet parking area is actually very tight and very confusing He literally shouted at us to back up and in general just made us feel like school kidswell up in the elevator to the restaurant itself and indeed the views are spectacularunfortunately that was the last spectacular item of the evening After checking in at the host stand it took another minutes before out table was readyand it was NOT busy at this stage and as above one of the reasons we made the later booking After being seated it was at least another minutes before anyone came to attend to us other than getting served ice waterthe waitress finally came to the table and gave us the menus and told us of the specialstook our cocktail orders and was offanother minutes passed and finally we were served small bread basket with one small dish of butterfor peoplestill no cocktails but we placed an appetizer order and also our entree order as well as we were really hungry at this pointwell another minutes passed and still no cocktails or appetizerswe had devoured the small bread basket long ago so we asked another different waiter if we could get another basket and it seemed like we were asking for something way out of linefinally our waitress came back to our table after we observed her across the room at another table chatting for at least minutes and asked about our cocktails which by now had been ordered about minutes ago minutes later the cocktails arrived and minutes after that the appetizers arrivedhad oysters rockefeller which were cold and just very bland in general Approximately another minutes later our entrees arrived and as in our group had ordered steaks we found that all were NOT at anywhere near the requested level of temperature other than the one filet that had been requested as medium well and since it was butterflied it had been cooked to a piece of shoe leatherthe other were to be medium and were basically what anyone would call very rare to rare at bestwith the length of time it had taken just to get served we were not about to try and send anything backthe one Chilean Sea Bass entree was very goodthe salmon entree was again cold bland and just not what one would expect from a establishment with the reputation the Monterey Bay Fish Grotto was supposed to haveoh and the tricolor roasted potatoes were also cold bland and tastelesswe ate what we could and left after a bill with significant disappointmentI know some will say why did you go to the Fish Grotto and order steaks but that is what our group chose and if it is on the menu and at the prices charged they also should be nothing short of excellent which they were NOThaving dined all over the Pittsburgh area for the last years I can assure diners who are looking for a great dining experience that there are FAR BETTER choices than the MBFGunless you want to spend per person with NO wine just for the chance of having a table with the great view I highly suggest you look elsewhere even on Mt Washingtonas per the title simply not even close to The Standard expected and deserved