You are given a review about a place. You need to provide a rating from "1 star" to "5 stars" for this place.
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Question: Is it weird that Firkin has an urban dictionary definition? Did I ever tell you that I thought I came up with the word Fathlete only to have my hopes and dreams crushed by urban dictionary? Another story for another day...on to Firkin on Paradise.

I've been here a few times for co-workers going away parties. So I'd say the majority of my experiences here have been for beer n' app's. Not too shabby, they do make a pretty mean onion raaang. So when I saw that they were doing a Groupon I jumped at the opportunity.

On a quiet, no plans, just back from vacation, not really feel like hanging out with anyone kind of night my wife and I decided to redeem the Groupon and grab some grub here. We were pleasantly surprised when we walked in and UFC was playing on every TV and blasting over the sound system. It was kind of weird that this was a Saturday night and outside the bar they weren't advertising that they were showing the fight and they had food specials listed Mon-Fri, but nothing on this Saturday night. Huh?

So I went with the chicken strips, which sounded like they were made in similar fashion as the fish n' chips. Whoa, these were world class bad strips. Over cooked, stringy, and a batter that just tasted poor. The waitress was fantastic and took these back and offered to bring me something else. I went with a plain ol' cheeseburger, which was real good. Nothing special, just a good bar burger. My wife went with the parmesan grilled cheese. Here's the problem, they ran out of parmesan bread, so it was a plain grilled cheese. The part I don't understand is that when you run out of an item, why do you just assume that somone won't know that the item isn't as described and serve it anyways? Como que what? It was a decent grilled cheese, every 6yo in the world would have been satisfied. The bread pudding was very good and I would recommend that.

So overall it was a pretty poor dining experience. I would still come here if someone was having a party of sorts, the beer is great, but I wouldn't go out of my way to break bread in this establishment.

Schmeh...

Answer: 2 stars

Question: This place is the best. It's worth the price, why not invest in your health? Food tastes great and everyone there is awesome, I basically live at here.

Answer: 5 stars

Question: Everything about this restaurant was average. I went here with my mom who came to visit me on a whim. We ate outside, which was nice. Our waitress was very prompt. They really try to give you a New Orleans feel here. And I give them props for trying to do that in downtown Pittsburgh of all places. But....the food was ok. There wasn't a whole lot of unique to it. I mean, one of the specials was a New Orleans styled salad. Salad. As a Special. It's just lettuce and some "stuff" in it right? That's the special?

Adding cajun fries was nice, but it's not what's bringing me back. The French Onion soup was good, but salty. The burger I had was very greasy. The service, outside of the initial promptness was slooooooooow. I think the waitress forgot to put in our order. We waited a long time from order to delivery. The people behind us didn't even get waters for the longest time, and they weren't that busy. The watress apologized, but still got my mom's salad wrong, as she asked for no onions, but gave them anyways. Either way, nothing here from preventing me from going back, but I'll probably check out the other restaurants in Market Square first before going back.

Answer:
3 stars