The restaurant hasn't changed much. I can look around the room and see the very table where the New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme was sitting some years ago when I was here one night. Sarah's restaurant was so typically Pittsburgh that visiting culinary celebrities often ate here. The brick walls in the main dining room are painted yellow. Tables are close together, and waiters keep moving them around to seat large parties.
Lunch is a popular time.
Pastas, classic dishes like clams with homemade bread stuffing with crab meat, frittatas, and sandwiches made with the focaccia that Claudio makes, are featured. Obviously, this is not a restaurant where you come to admire the interior design. The food is the attraction. And a big attraction it is, too. We've been here on a weekend night and a mid-week night.