Problem: New life goal: eat at every Pamela's in Pittsburgh. Justifiably famous for their hotcakes, Pamela's is probably one of the best diners ever. Even when Obama visited the 'Burgh last year he stopped in. By the cashier, there's a picture of him flashing a giant smile, flanked by whom I'm assuming are the owners. (He went to the one on the Strip -- I asked.) This particular location is in the Walnut Street shopping district, and it's not terribly large. It's not as funky as the Oakland area Pamela's, but the food is just as good. Upstairs is an unrelated Peruvian shop/cafe, which doesn't seem to serve food on Sundays. At about 11:30 AM Sunday morning, on Valentine's Day no less, the wait here was only half an hour. Not bad! The crowd seemed to have doubled by the time my party and I left. Originally we had wanted to go to the Oakland one but it was a total mob scene and tried this location instead. The Food: Fattening, delicious, huge and cheap: every diner should aspire to this! They don't serve lunch specials on Sundays, which is fine because all we wanted were the hotcakes! We all got breakfast specials ($6.75 for 2 eggs any style, 2 hotcakes and ham or sausage or bacon) and were allowed to substitute home fries or toast for the meat options. For $2 extra you could substitute a specialty hotcake. HUGE HUGE HUGE PORTIONS. Two separate gigantic dinner plates were needed for 1) eggs and home fries and 2) hotcakes which took up the entire plate. I made the mistake of spreading butter on top of my regular hotcakes, which I didn't realize were already approximately 50% butter in the first place. They're thinner and crispier than your average pancake and a little too salty but still good. The speciality hotcakes are more crepe-like in that they're stuffed with the filling of your choice and whipped cream and then rolled up. Whoa. Coffee's kind of weak. The servers are the sweetest people you'll ever meet. Cash only.
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Problem: Looking for a good pizza joint in Cotswold? Pizza Peel (or is it Pizza n Peel?) is an unpretentious place with great beverage and food specials and an awesome staff. The pizza is made in a brick oven and personal-sized pizza is around $8-9. Crispy crust, fresh ingredients. The other selling point is the ambience The wait staff are very amicable folks who don't mind mingling with the customers. I once curried the favor of a manger who let me take home a nifty pint glass for free. Who else does that? The place is real cozy; its small and gets crowded on weekends at night. At such times, the service lapses somewhat. But if you can take a long lunch, hit up Pizza Peel. Or if you're bored on a weeknight, you can play trivia in a place small enough to hurl banter at opponents on the opposite end of the restaurant. Ya'll gonna love it, ya hear?
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Problem: Went here on Monday (actually next door at Bruno Mali's) for the hip hop night, and it was sick. About 50 or so people in the smallish space. Cheap drinks, edgy urban art sale (lot of Che paintings), early 90s hip hop (think A Tribe Called Quest) , freestyling, and an eclectic crowd sum it up here. Check out the cute blondie mastering the turntables....damn!
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Problem: After what seems like an eternity my contract is almost over with century link. I thought when i switched from cox that i would be getting a faster internet connection but i was sorely mistaken. Ive been on century links 40 down 5 up service ( the highest package offered) and its been consistently slower then my cox package which was 30 down 7.5 up. Not only that there offices close at bankers hours so.good luck getting any support from them after 6. All in all im glad my contract is over so i can dump them and head back to cox.
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